As the imaginative author
of his own tale (narrated to be «Chapters
of my
Life»), Kitten recalls the lifelong company
of tight - knit
friends (one, with Down's syndrome, mirrors Kitten's grown - up childishness), dreams
of his long - lost mother (said to have looked like Mitzi Gaynor), and condemns «this stupid serious world» for its
wanton violence.