a thirteen-second Telephone, by Laurea.
I want to believe that you can still buy a telephone like this. Once upon a time, this was the only telephone anybody would have drawn, as the cabal who controlled telephonic communication only made this telephone. The embarrassment of telephony riches in which we live today would probably make the task of drawing the Fastest Possible Telephone nearly incomprehensible for a five-year-old.
Thankfully, some of us still recall the horn-of-plenty that is the rotary telephone—the twisty cable, the painfully slow process of dialing, the sea-slug-shaped earpiece. It is a fine icon and a memorial to a time when phones were things we could not only walk away from, but which discouraged their own use. A forgotten blessing, and in only thirteen seconds, five-year-olds!
Ahoy ahoy!
