And then there were SIX (VI)...

[alvin_stomack]

Samuel Smiles is not the only other friend (i.e. human being and/or plant/animal/paramecium) on Janitor Island. There are six others. This is a catalogue of names and souls:

Maribeth Toilet née Purcell - She specializes in all things commodious. So fascinated was she with the inner (and outer) workings of that greatest but obscene modern invention

Comments

[panoptican]

Alvin, I devote this to you.

[alvin_stomack]

I have no choice but to THANK you for your spurious thought-poem concerning me and my dear now-absent friend-faithful Samuel Smiles. In your mind, we are peace-warriors. In my mind, you and I are fully developed and ready to eat. In Samuel's mind we have forgotten to pack our clothes yet again. (I never eat fish; would you eat another philosopher? Ponder).

[panoptican]

Pondered. I apologize Alvin for rewarding you with such an unfit prize.

But Samuel Smiles absent? That was always the case in the futurepast.