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In honor of Sonja, my friend Louis Janus’s cat, a real beauty who died yesterday after a long illness. Louis would have been my favorite Norwegian prof had I been smart enough to take Norwegian while I was at St Olaf College. Instead I got to know him when he came to the computer center for help. Thanks to Louis, the first thing I figured out how to do on a Mac was type characters like å, ø, and æ. Sonja’s illness followed roughly the same trajectory of our beloved Norton’s a few years back, and learning of her death yesterday brought back the awful sadness we felt that horrible day that we had to say goodbye to him.
A Kaddish for the critters we’ve loved.