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...royal palace and smuggled out of the kingdom. According to the New York Times, the statue was mysteriously spirited away by thieves using a highly organized system of logistics that included Land Rovers, trucks and airplanes. When he realized his loss, Law Aw, the King (also called the Fon) of Kom was thought to be "psychologically killed," and soon died...
GENERATION. William Goodhart converts a Greenwich Village loft into a sparring ground for the Establishment and the hip pie, the parent and the child. Henry Fon da, as a visiting father-in-law, fights the battle of the ages with his usual bemused charm...
Whan that Somer with his fon hadde gone The CLERKES hadde al bak to scole yronne, And filled ech rome with swich a swete soun To mak the halles with ladies lough resounen. And oft twas seyde by them as hadde an ye That they wewr al engaged in villainye...
Durrell and the Fon became foiner and foiner friends. When the time came for the zoologist to leave with his animals, the Fon gave him a set of his own magnificently embroidered black-and-yellow robes and proclaimed him the Deputy Fon...
...Anyone? Back home, the Deputy Fon of Bafut got a Blimpish reception from the city fathers when he offered his adoptive town of Bournemouth a ready-made menagerie: "There had never been a zoo in the town ever since it had become a town, and so they did not see why there should be one now." For a year, Durrell almost literally had a zoo in his luggage. Then a 17th century mansion on the Channel island of Jersey was ceded to the animal kingdom...