![]() He saved everything, and we had what we called a Jupiter Box we put everything into. Such as “never argue during a circus,” or… rules to live by concerning our relationship: “Compliment and flatter Sally all day long.” That was one of my favorites.ĭid you save everything, or were many notes and letters lost or tossed? We believed we were sent here from Jupiter to explore the world together and spread our special charm – that was our mission – and then report back on whatever we discovered…We even created axioms – we called them Jupiterian axioms – whenever we had a disagreement. In addition to Cookie and Cake, you called yourselves the Jupiter twins. Our creativity matched as well as everything else, which just, you know, heightened the whole experience… He’s a poet, I think. We would write stories together every night. I mean, we both put as much creative energy into our relationship as we did into our careers if not more. ![]() Wade remembers him here in his own passionate words.Īll those notes and letters, did he labor over them or write them effortlessly? The enchantment ended in 2008, when Carlin died at age 71 of heart failure. Carlin’s notes to Wade are frequently playful, sometimes goofy and profane, but quite often beautifully romantic. That, at least, is what the collected notes and letters that passed between them suggest in Wade’s visually inviting, glossy new volume The George Carlin Letters: The Permanent Courtship of Sally Wade. For the nearly 10 years they spent together, famous comedian George Carlin and writer Sally Wade were endlessly in love. ![]() He called her Cookie, she called him Cake.
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