Dear Cyndy,

If I write again so soon its primarily because so much
is going on in my mind; and my letters to you are a diary
of sorts which preserves at least some elements of the
experience which my memory will retain for no longer than
a few minutes.

Thank you very much for reminding me of Spinach's name.
A week ago, before I rediscovered my English-A essay
I had no recollection at all of any Flanders dog. That paper
aroused a vague memory. In it I described confiding in a dog
whom I called Sandy, - but remembered that Sandy was not his
real name but that of a Konnarock dog, whose identity I
had borrowed for the purpose. When I wrote my essay in 1946,
which incidentally is rather badly written, I was
still so uncomfortable about the whole episode that I felt
it necessary not only to suppress Spinach's name,
but to move Chappaqua to Pleasantville, and 
relocate Moll from NYU to the physics department at Columbia.
But now, that you have refreshed my memory, I am prepared
to raise my right hand and declare that I am absolutely
certain that it was Spinach with whom I shared my grief.

A few other interesting facets of my 1946 account: I articulate
resentment at the demand to assume an American identity.
I bristle at the constant reminders that my unhappiness reflects
ingratitude. I also describe preserving an immaculately
starched shirt in my bureau drawer to remind me of home;
and I mention the consolation of reading the gothic type in a copy
of Grimm's Fairy Tales, provided to me by "a German physician" -
I can't imagine who it might have been, - stories which I had
previously detested, but  which suddenly I cherished as links
to the past. For reasons that the psychoanalyst will understand,
the girl assigned to tutor me in English I pretend to have been
a boy; the boys on the playground communicate with me by drawing
swastikas into the sand. They ogle me like an exotic animal in a
zoo. I complain that there's no charge for admission.

Enough of Chappaqua. Back to Suffolk Superior Court
whose website I again ivestigated on the Internet tonight.
(You, incidentally can also peek at what's going on,
if you care to. The  URL is
http://www.ma-trialcourts.org/tcic/welcome.jsp
the login: emeyer
the password: prose
click on "county inquiry"
then select "Suffolk" county,
and enter the case number SUCV2008-05664
and the information is, so to speak, at your fingertips.)
When I looked tonight, I was startled by an entry
that wasn't there yesterday March 10, to wit, a docket entry
Item No. 8, purporting to show that on February 18,
I had filed a Motion for Judgment on the Pleadings.
I did no such thing.
Such a Motion would have been a major procedural error,
for which I might lose the case, and
which the Clerk should never have accepted for filing.
One of two things must have occurred. Either, some clerk in
that office made the mistake of docketing the Memorandum
which I did file on February 18, as a Motion for Judgment on
the Pleadings -  how could such a mistake come about?
-  or one of the defendant recipients to whom I mailed the
Motion yesterday had fraudulently filed it in my name
with the intention of sabotaging the proceedings.
I queried the USPS tracking list on the Internet,
and discovered that of my three mailings, one to 
David Hadas, the Assistant Attorney General,
one to the Nantucket Building Department,
and one to the Boston attorneys whose
names mysteriously appear on the case,
only the last -to the Boston attorneys -
had as yet been delivered,
namely at 10:01 a.m. this morning, March 11.
So, tomorrow, early, I'll take the bus to Harvard Square,
the Red Line to Park Street, the Green Line to Government Center;
wend my way through the metal detectors at the Court House.
I almost always set them off, I think because they are programmed
also to read unconventional thoughts, then take the elevators
to the 12th floor, smile - through my broken teeth - at the lady
at the desk, and ask to have a look at item No 8. If that
turns out to be my Memorandum, I'll point out the mistake and 
suggest they might want to correct it. 
If it's the Motion which I sent to Ms. Saillant and Mr. DeRensis,
I'll politely ask for a copy and consider what to do next.

I hope your bronchitis is much better. Keep in mind if you're
taking beta-blockers - topically for the eyes or by mouth for
blood pressure - these can make a cough much worse. Get well
and give my best to Ned. 
Jochen