Historic of the books

Po-Paï the chow-chow

 

 

Presentation of “Our chow is not a dog”, volumes 1 to 10

by François (the author) and Po-Paï the chow (his collaborator)

 

            How does one manage to make 10 books, of 400 pages each, on a chow? It is quite simple. First of all, you make volume 1. When you finished volume 1, you start volume 2. As soon as you finished volume 2, you then start the volume 3 and...

            What? Doesn't my explanation satisfy you?

            Well! Then, euh..., euh… Once upon a time... No!, not like that neither.

 

            Let see, let see...

 

            Oh! dash it! Spontaneous! All was spontaneous! What to say more?

            I had already written several books when Po-Paï the chow arrived amongst us. He was so beautiful, so much touching, so nice, so much all, that I could not do anything else than to devote to Him a written book of my hand.

            It was initially a first booklet of 60 pages.

            Our Po-Paï was still nice and funny, He was entitled thus to a standard book of 220 pages.

            He continued to be nice, funny, beautiful, charming and all and all. I thus pushed to a book of 400 pages. I thought well that it was a lot for a single chow but I said to myself that, after all, He really deserved it.

            And He also deserved a second book of 400 pages: volume 2.

            And He deserved a volume 3.

            Then a volume 4.

            And finally a volume 5. 

 

            All these books have been auto-published and sold by correspondence by myself. At this stage, the “Guinness Book of the Records” allotted an homologation.

            To thank my faithful readers, I devoted a volume 6 to them. I gathered the memories of their own chows-chows. This “chowesque” biography was done with the collaboration of eight chows-chows’ owners.

 

            I cannot recall why I started a volume 7. All that I know, is that since the middle of this book, I entirely let Po-Paï speak. I was fed up to be the only one to sacrifice. I then will let Po-Paï tell you the continuation:

            “Indeed, since page 213 of volume 7, I, Po-Paï, am the only one who talk, I wanted to give you my point of view about philosophy, religion, money, etc. As much subjects that you, humans, like to approach with much serious.

            I then asked my Master to make me heaps of illustrations because I wanted to make a volume 8 with many funny images.

            Volume 9 is devoted to my fiancée Raï-Ma the chow. We have both exchanged a correspondence for several months and as I have nothing to hide, I disclose all to you.

            To date, volume 10 is achieved. We will undoubtedly stop at this stage to make a round figure. I will join together one day these ten volumes in a single book of four thousand pages to see whether it is thicker than a dictionary.”

 

Po-Paï and François

Nice, 01/01/02

 

Nota bene from Po-Paï: 

 Before writing all these books about me, my master François had already written ten books these last years. François is an engineer who likes undoubtedly to speak about very complicated subjects because he likes more the numbers than the words. If he wrote so much about me, it is because he wanted to show that he can count at least up to ten: one book, two books, three books..., ten books about Po-Paï. 

For those who are interested, here are the other books written by my master François: 

"Stop making yourself ugly!"

"It is true!": (comprises thousand seven hundred maxims on all, all, all!) 

"Pretty Marie": a grandmother watches her mischievous grand-daughter living

"The novel of LETS": Local Exchanges and Trading System (barter)

"Who are you woman?": an answer to the book “The rules”

"To not become mad"

"Initiate me with esotericism!"

"My last book"

For more details about these books, click on: http://catherinegautier.free.fr