Pinky's world has changed. He just has discovered an event from his distant past that he was too young to remember. If true, it shakes the very foundation upon which his reality is based. Here it is narrated by the father of the other toddler (as recently emailed to Pinky's father):"When Pinky and Dibs were about the same age--toddlers--you all visited us at our rented house on Manor Road in Austin. When Pinky spotted Dibs entering the room for their first meeting, he rushed across the room, slammed chest to chest into Dibs, and knocked him flat on the floor and amazed. In a display of speed and force amazing in itself, Granny D leapt across the room and smacked the toddler Pinky to the floor. From then on Pinky's nom de guerre at our house was "Mr Moto". Pinky probably won't want to hear this story of violence; or maybe he will. But Granny D won't. Nor will Dibs want to be reminded of such a defeat. Nevertheless, I think some apologies are in order."
Firstly, Pinky always considered himself the underdog, not the agressor. Secondly, Pinky needs to have total control over his many names; obviously, he doesn't. (And Mr. Moto is a great name, even for a toddler in 1964.) Thirdly, Pinky now imagines 100's of events that occured that he doesn't remember that were this horrifying--or worse! It will be a long, hard road to mend all the havoc created by this so-called Mr. Moto.
