http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling A Books by People I Know project Wed, 21 May 2008 23:05:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Seen lately in NYC subway tunnels - graffiti in brilliant green paint "Inkling Lives". http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2008/05/21/inkling-lives/ Dear Anaconda, I understand, through a series of coded messages, that you have moved your Rook to Queen's Rook 5. I took the necessary precautions and had your tailor's mistress in Panama kidnapped. Perhaps you will relinquish your headstrong ambition to create a seki with double ko and consider releasing one ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2006/12/14/a-series-of-coded-messages/ Dear Mr. Cartographimera-Sythe, It is with some measure of embarrassment that I pen this note to you. Well type this note to you. You know what I mean. It seems there has been a sort of an administrative error over in our internment division. It's really nothing ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2006/12/14/almanac-revisions/ Don't be alarmed, Anders Inkling is not dead. That is to say there have been no recent reliable reports of his death. In point of fact Mr. Inkling dies with some frequency. Declarations of his untimely undoing surface with clock-like regularity in the tabloids, the financial ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2006/03/15/a-few-words-on-the-death-of-anders-inkling/ My Dear Ms. Pettigrew, It can no longer be doubted. Yes, the sudden influx of chartered accountants setting up shop in Paris, London, Tokyo, Prague, L.A., and New York was an early warning sign that should have been heeded, but alas, it was all too easily and ironically dismissed as ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2006/03/02/mobilize-the-stenographers/ My Dear Anaconda, So, you thought you could trick me by sending an email to my email address. You must be reading Game Theory again, Old Man, taking the direct approach. My only question is where to begin. Literally, that is my question. Is the part of the story ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2006/02/23/anaconda-addressed/ I can only conclude by your lack of reply that either (a) you failed to receive the original, or (b) the shock of seeing the original was simply too much for your frail constitution and you were struck down by a grave case of hysterical blindness. In the case of the former please ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2006/02/23/inkling-returns/ The Morningstar Arms is an unremarkable yet pleasant hotel in the more fashionable end of London's SoHo district. A typical boutique operation it typically catered to modestly budgeted tourists - the kind that visit a city year after year and would never dream of wasting their money on anything so ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2001/03/21/emphasis-on-brown/ Svetlana awoke on a cool damp floor of concrete. Head ringing. A dull ache in her upper thigh. Slightly nauseous. Disoriented. She took comfort in the latter. It meant the machine was through with its business, its awful business, and once again Svetlana was ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/2000/11/29/the-machine/ L. C. Hessel probably had the last decent hotel room in Seoul. On the battle field he would sleep anywhere. In the Falkland Islands it was under a dead sheep for two days. On a job he never took ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/10/02/one-slight-thing-more/ The countess woke up with a headache. Disoriented, her ears ringing horribly, she tried to sit up. Failed. Laid back down. She tried to piece together where she was, and how she'd gotten there. Then it all came back to her. She noted dumbly that it was ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/21/something-wrong-with-her-contact/ A Messenger Lieutenant Commander Hessel of the Royal British Marines hated this part of the job: the "no report" report. Reports of success were easy, of course. Reporting a death was more difficult, but playing the sympathetic, dignified, yet compassionate messenger of ill-tidings was certainly a ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/19/the-no-report-report/ In the ring: As Anders Inkling finished his tea, he felt an electronic buzz from his pants cuff. He reached into his jacket pocket and adjusted the fountain pen. He spoke into the microphone at his ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/11/in-the-ring/ Three weeks later. Paros, Greece, Kalypso Suite, Hotel Yria. "I don't give a damn about your valise - I want my daughter found!" A heavy fist crashed on the hundred year old desk, taking its toll on the ancient cypress wood. At 1.9 meters, 120 kilos, Count Pirenzi was an imposing ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/04/three-weeks-later/ The puppet-master: Anders Inkling watched the two women meet at the newsstand forty-eight floors below. His range-finding binoculars showed him two things: First, the woman in the tweed suit had the code, second, neither of them ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/03/the-puppet-master/ Serve and Volley Svetlana was running - fast. Her breathing difficult to control - no doubt the effect of the trace of chemical eleven she had absorbed transdermally through her fingertip. Working with adrenal-accelerators was always dangerous, but she was certain that, unlike Charlie, her dose was minute enough ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/02/serve-and-volley/ The Countess' Story Valentina Pirenzi was terrified. She was in way over her head, and she knew it. What she did not know, was what to do about it. She'd been flying by the seat of her pants for the last twenty minutes and it didn't take an experienced ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/01/she-was-in-way-over-her-head/ Nancy's story 8:26am Nancy's is leaning over Charlie's desk fussing over the box of jelly-filled and glazed donuts - fully aware that she is presenting her balding, pudgy lover with an eyeful of her ample cleavage as she chides him flirtatiously for not getting her favorite kind, bavarian ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/01/nancys-story/ At precisely 8:29am Armand turned his custom-made leather office chair to the window facing the street. At precisely 8:30am the blonde in the black trenchcoat emerged from the Underground station. She was right on time. That was good. She was not carrying the valise. That was bad. "Continue?" Armand ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/01/pressed-for-time/ Armand sat as his cubicle in the windowless corner of the seventh floor office space. It was 8:15am and as usually he was the first to arrive. Charlie, who brings the donuts wouldn't be there for another 7 minutes. Nancy, the accountant with the short fuse and ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/09/01/preparation/ Mr. Ersatz, I can only assume your warning to be another ploy since you know all too well that Inkling will have Mrs. Perezprieto-Padmanabhan at the airport to intercept any influx of fair Spanish ladies (oh you ladies of Spain). Casually mentioning the possibility that Spanish turpitudes ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/03/09/anarcho-syndicalist/ Mr. Mitriosis- Hello? Jewish ladies? Even I am not that cruel (there is a little thing called the Geneva convention you know). No, I'm afraid you've been duped - something which I'd have to think you must be getting rather used to - or you would be getting ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/03/09/42-inch-hips-and-chanel-no5/ Mr. Director (bah), Your ploy of overwhelming my attorneys with nice Jewish ladies was a cunning and brutally effective one, but flawed. Hearing of the invasion through a quizzling stenographer, Anders Inkling was at first shocked, then panicked, then sweaty, and then he knew his course was ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/03/08/cunning-beautiful-and-flawed/ Mrs. Corduroy! I'm ecstatic! Your first coherent message in years! Okay, not completely coherent, but certainly nothing you would feel surprised to hear coming from the mouth of your average mescaline addict in de-tox. Truly it is a breakthrough and I am elated at your progress. So much so that I ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/02/19/im-ecstatic/ Dr. Solomon Aspic, DDS, Chairman of the Board, Alsatian-American Society for the Prevention of Orthodontia Dr. Aspic, That you have fallen victim to paranoid delusions is not surprising, given your tendency towards overexcitement. That you have been made a dupe in ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/02/19/society-for-the-prevention-of-orthodontia/ Mrs. Corduroy, I'm deeply concerned. I present you with a simple malicious insult in the spirit of true friendship and you respond with a delusional tirade against our dear friends at U.S. West (have we been bitten?). Your agitated hysteria so far out of rein that you invoke the ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/02/19/deeply-concerned/ Dear Mr. Sadistic, My number, as if you couldn't get it which is a lie but I'll play along for the moment, is 206-555-1212. If you call this number, expect a loud noise and a lawsuit. If you don't stop calling my cell phone number, I'll have to talk ... http://www.booksbypeopleiknow.com/blog_inkling/1999/02/19/dear-mr-sadistic/