Who is Wally?
Wally is a small gopherlike being who lives under Joel Furr’s bed. Neither Joel nor his wife Carole is entirely sure how Wally came to dwell under the bed. Joel and Carole were doing some shopping for home furnishings in January of 1996 and happened to be at K-Mart loading up on paper goods, shelving, various chemicals, and so forth, when it occurred to them that what the apartment really needed was a small gopherlike being. Unfortunately, none of the employees of that particular K-Mart admitted knowing where the “Small Gopherlike Beings” section might be found. Joel and Carole were forced to return home, lacking the small gopherlike being they’d set their hearts on. As it happened, however, a small gopherlike being was found living under the bed a couple of days later, sitting in a small (gopher-sized) La-Z Boy armchair reading a copy of “No Exit” by Jean-Paul Sartre and chuckling to itself. This being answers to the name of Wally and seems hell-bent on gathering all the shoes in the
