Tortured Analogies for Everyone!

Wherein Our Heroine.... well, yeah.

I have mentioned before that Simon has a slipper. The slipper is Simon's near constant companion. He carries it around the house, emitting a muffled yowl, dropping it with a plasticky splat when he is spied committing this strange act. The slipper is a substitute for the cow, which was the first thing Simon carried through the house, yodeling and wailing. Cow was a charming little critter, who eventually was nibbled to death by the dog. Here is the last known picture of cow, before he lost horns, tail, and everything else to the puppy maw.

Simon obviously feels the need for some sort of companionship, for the slipper tends to appear in Simon's most-frequented areas: the couch, the stairs, the cat-tower in the basement. The slipper is at Simon's absolute mercy, for no feet will ever inhabit its fuzzy fastness again. Where once slipper and his mate padded briskly about the house on John's errands, now they simply lie still and separate, waiting for Simon to decide that they must be moved yet again. Slipper is a pawn in Simon's polydactyl paws.

Lately, I feel a bit like Slipper. The task of mapping out the absurd borderlands of this analogy is left to the reader.

Posted: Friday - March 11, 2005 at 08:43 AM | |