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Inbox: R is for “RESPONDEZ,” if you Please!
May 4th, 2009 by Gatsby

To: GB

From:

Pliny (the Younger)

LXVII Oysterbath Way

Lower Triumphia

BCBG81

GB!

Who are you, to accept my invitation to dinner and never come? Here’s your sentence and you shall pay me costs IN FULL, no small sum either. It was all laid out: one lettuce each, three snails, two eggs, barley-cake and wine with honey chilled with with snow (you will reckon this too, and as an expensive item, seeing that it disappears in the dish!), besides olives, beetroots, gherkins, onions and any number of similar delicacies. You would have heard a comic play, a reader or singer, or all three if I felt generous. Instead you chose to go where you could have oysters, sow’s innards, sea-urchins, and Spanish dancing-girls. You will suffer for this – I won’t say how. It was a Cruel Trick done to spite one of us – yourself or most likely me, and possibly both of us, if you think what a feast of fun, laughter and learning we were going to have. You can eat richer food at many houses, but nowhere with such free and easy enjoyment. All I can say is, try me; and then, if you don’t prefer to decline invitations elsewhere, you can always make excuses to me.

Miffed,
Pliny (the Younger)

pliny

 

 

 

RE: Urgent R-and-R
Mar 27th, 2009 by Gatsby

Madame Cassava McGroo
c/o Madame McGroo’s Seltzer Spa
Rt. 2, Box 36 A Pozo Road
New Fenwick

Madam McGroo, how DO you do?

Your clinic came to my attention with the HIGHEST recommendation. Word amongst gentlemen of NOTE is that you are both a “Miracle Worker” and discreet. I count on that discretion when I tell you that I am in DIRE need of R&R (Rest and Relaxation). What started as a perfectly normal week, with talk of picnics and grand adventure! has gone sour in the Worst Way. I tell you, I am at my WIT’S ENDS!

Madam McGroo, I would throw myself at the mercy of your restorative tonics at your Earliest convenience. I want The Works. Spare no expense– my pockets are many and deep. I am new to this sort of thing, so if there is anything I should bring—a spare hat or gifts for the serving staff—please DO advise!

Discreetly yours,
Gatsby
gatsby

Inbox: “We Know EVERYTHING, Gatsby”
Mar 23rd, 2009 by Gatsby

To: Gatsby

Sender’s Whereabouts: Unknown! Read the rest of this entry »

RE: Your LUCKY Day!
Mar 20th, 2009 by Gatsby

Lady Hibiscus T. Porridge
888 Berrybrook Way
Republic of Plimko

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RE: Picnic Planning
Mar 18th, 2009 by Gatsby

J. Jasper Theramungo
B 1/2 Wickerstone Lane
Upper Insmouth
Greater Britain

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