Letters to Jenny by Piers Anthony

Author:Piers Anthony [Anthony, Piers]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 978-1-4976-5765-6
Publisher: Open Road Media
Published: 2011-01-28T16:00:00+00:00

AwGhost 25, 1989

Dear Jenny,

Well, I’ve done it again: I have foolishly frittered away my time, and now am late writing to you. I was trying to figure out why my file handling program DirMagic would copy readily from Drive C to Drive D, but balk at copying from Drive D to Drive C. Over an hour gone, but I finally did figure it out. When I get hold of a puzzle, any type, grrr, I can’t let go. I don’t suppose you know anyone like that? More in a moment.

Several Big Events this week. One is that they are getting close pictures of the planet Neptune and its big moon Triton. Another is that I had to shovel a bag full of horse manure. But the most important is that I GOT YOUR LETTER!! Laurie sent it, together with a letter of her own. Rather than write to her directly (mainly because I frittered away that hour) I’ll just tell you to tell her I got it. She says it took you five hours on your Scan Pac to do it. It says that you appreciate my writing to you, and are thrilled that Jenny Elf is in a novel, and you thank my wife Cam for the beautiful pillow. You also say you like the Elf Letter. I think that’s a confusion; I didn’t send you an Elf Letter, Richard Pini did. But next time I’m in touch with him, I’ll relay the message. I may have mentioned that we hope to have a special hardcover edition of Isle of View with a Pini cover showing Jenny Elf. We’ll see how that works out; it gets complicated because we have to negotiate with the publisher. Anyway, thanks for the letter, but next time you have five hours to spare I hope you’ll spend them eating chocolate pudding; that’s surely more fun for you. Laurie showed me your Scanning Boards too, with all the letters and words you can point to. Hey, I see my name is there! Right next to your cats. I like your messages “That’s Not Fair” and “I Don’t Like This.”

Now I was going to tell you why I frittered away that hour. It started when I made a serendipitous discovery, and—what? Oh, you don’t know that word? Okay, I’ll tell you about Serendipity. Serendip is the old name for Ceylon, a big island off the south of India. The new name is Sri Lanka. There is a story that there were three princes of Serendip who were always finding good things that they weren’t looking for. So they made it into the word serendipity. Yes, it’s true—there really is such a story, and the word does derive from the name of that island. So when you look for a lost penny and find a dollar instead, that’s serendipitous indeed. It’s pronounced seren-DIP-ity; I know you’ll like that word.

Okay, so this morning I made a serendipitous discovery when Alan finished typing the—what? Look, Jenny, how do

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