Bob Hunter

WRITING IS a feedforward mechanism that leads to]

Strictly personal ®

feedback, some of it more delightful than others.

Comes a letter from a lady in
Montreal:

‘Dear Bob Hunter, I saw your
letter in the Globe the other day
(complaining about their inac-
curate coverage of the Rumiing
of the Bulls) and I couldn’t help
wondering whether or not you're
the same ‘Bob’ | met on my way
to Pamplona in 1981,

"You came from B.C., your
father owned a lumber mill. You
had a belt buckle that said ‘Bob’
on it. You were coming back
from Greece and we met in the
train station in Paris where I
helped you purchase your ticket
to Pamplona by translating for
you.

“We sat together on the train.
We got a room together on Calle
Estafeta (a street in Pamplona).
We met up with some Americans,
a couple of girls and a guy just
out of the army.

“You and he went to San
Sebastian but the weather was
chilly and a bomb blast (those
Basques again!) drove everyone
away. By the time you came
back, I'd met up with some
Argentinians, a Mexican girl, a
Norwegian-Greek who played the
violin.

‘*We all slept outside along the
ramparts not far from the cor-
rida. You ran with the bulls and
we all got together at the Casa
Flores bar...

“T was from Nova Scotia, with
thick, dark-brown hair, and wore
an orange T-shirt and always
carried my red nylon tote bae. |
don’t remember how we separat-
ed. And maybe you’re not the
same Bob at all. If you are,
greetings! If not, greetings
anyway. And I hope you’re as
fond or your Pamplona memo-
ries as | am of mine.

‘Sincerely, Anna....

““P.S. My name was ‘Annette’
back then.”’

Comes another letter from my
friend Carole Baker, now the
wife of Frank Ogden. I wrote a
column referring to an ‘‘in-
telligent female friend’’ who tol-
erates neurotic dogs. She replies:

“Well, here I am in sunny
California, enjoying life in the
fast lane, Speaking of which, last
weekend Frank and I headed
south from Monterey to visit a
long-time artist friend in Cam-
bria, a quaint coastal village.

“We decided on the Big Sur
route, because it’s more scenic,
and also to make sure we missed
the car wars on the freeway. We
did miss the gun slinging, but on-
ly by a few minutes, as that day it
took place on the Big Sur high-
way near the
pground.

“So life has been relatively
peaceful for us until earlier this
week, when our two sheepdogs
flew down from Vancouver.

“Yesterday, we were obliged to
set off two bombs, one in the liv-
ing-room and one in the bedroom
— flea bombs, that is. That
wiped out the infantry. And to-
day another battalion moved in, |
think they've been residing in this
historic home since it was built in
1908. And it appears they will
remain there long after we have
returned to Canada.

“The rental ads in the local
newspapers nearly all specify no
pets and no smokers. If they
knew I spoke French, favored
metric and that I was once a
serious supporter of Trudeau, I'd
be living in a 1957 Chevy on the
beach.

“So life goes on. It’s mid-
morning and I'm sitting here in
my recliner chair, with my two
Shetland sheepdogs at my side. 1
have the New York Times Book
Review in one hand and my
ready handgun in the other.
Right after { arrived I went out

and bought a pistol. Life is tenu-

ous at best.

“The dogs are just staking out
the boundaries of their new ter-
ritory, and they’re alert to every
movement, every sound ~- ready
to bark away, if not bite, every
potential intruder,

“There is a light footstep on
the front veranda. Instinctively,
my forefinger; hugs the trigger.
The dogs spring into an attack
position and freeze. Another
footstep, closer to the door. Our
dogs bark! I take aim and shoot.
The barking stups. It was the
mailman.

“Water pistols are the easiest
way to quiet barking dogs, I have
discovered. It’s taken me a while
to Jearn it, but it works.

“If only neurotic kids could be
controlled and re-conditioned so
easily. —

“In vino veratis (there i is truth
in wine), Carole."

Ventana cam- |

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Local barrister Peter Faminow
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fMegal suite resident Ron Gam-
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