It is hard to compliment a author, I suspect. This is why critics were invented. To conjure up a character in my mind, sometimes when I am in Wal-Mart, or at the fancy bread store, and then have this character – BE MANIFEST – is the highest compliment a writer can own. Here is Miriam Starfish Christling – to the max! Except, she is not a Christian Nut.
This human – can not think in the box! This has concerned her therapist who gives her a free-be that gets the correct response you might see in comedies of the 30s and 40s. The “small potatoes” gag is perhaps in response to her therapist asking her to do normal tik-tok videos like the other tik-tok girls. When Rena told me I would be proud she alas has friends, and her best friend is her boss at the janitor service, I invented her best friend who reminds me of the Arnolds, my crazy Nordic people.
John
Rosamond Press 