* * * * * Patong Beach, Island of Phuket, Thailand Sunday, 5 th September 1993 Currently I’m sitting inside Peter Shuster’s bamboo and rattan, open-air restaurant at his Patong Penthouse, next door to my town house, enjoying an excellent Viennese pork Schnitzel mit noodles - washing it down with a Singha Beer. The restaurant is shaded by a gigantic, parasite jungle tree that has totally grown around a full sized sugar palm. Living in this monolithic tree are two birds that have fluttered down onto my right shoulder – joining me for lunch. One is a snow white sulfur-crested cockatoo named “Bee-Bee.” The other bird is black with orange trim and red eyes, larger than a parakeet, named “Foley,” and I’m not certain what type it is. ...