MY NAME ESCAPES ME

"Parr Forgets Parr." I like it.

Toward the end of his life the most [probably] famous actor in England, Sir Alec Guiness, suffered from memory problems, and while he remembred to get
on the right train on the right day to travel from London to Sussex
university to address the students there, when appearing on the
platform, he introduced himself by saying, "Good afternoon, my name
escapes me..." -- Xylophilo (Phil Innes)

That goes in my memoirs, along with a picture of a very young Louie Blair standing next to a spouting Venetian fountain, holding a bicycle with a flat tire. Larry Parr

Why was this fountain holding a bicycle, and what was the fountain saying? And in which language? -- Phil Innes (Xylophilo)

Before his brains got addled, Louie Blair had
had a double amputation, which was reversed
several years later when he finally sat down in an
armchair. He rode his bicycle as others ride
unicycles. One tries to be disarmingly charming on
occasion, pawning off indifferent intellectual sherry
from the armoire.