Isadore Raspberry-19 Cohen

Intersection of Wall Street and Broad Street, home of the Raspberry family

Isadore Raspberry-19 Cohen was the lover of Melody Oriole-2 von Peterswald. The two of them lived with her grandfather, Wilbur Daffodill-11 Swain, in the the lobby of the Empire State Building, and were fond of playing backgammon on a board Swain painted on the floor. His family, the Raspberries, lived in the Wall Street area of Manhattan. Both Isadore and Melody were illiterate, with little curiosity about the past. Melody did most of the talking for them both, but both hated being asked questions. Once, when pressed by Swain to name the three most important humans in history, they grudgingly came up with Swain himself, Jesus Christ, and Santa Claus. Both hoped to become slaves of Vera Chipmunk-5 Zappa, who ran a large farm on the island. Although Swain approved of this, Vera often had to tell them "that slavery wasn't for everybody".

Melody gave birth shortly after her arrival in Manhattan at the age twelve. The child was a stillborn male that was buried in an ornate box that was once a humidor and placed in a manhole. On days of light gravity, she and Isadore would work on building a pyramid made of debris at Broadway and 42nd Street over the gravesite. She was pregnant again at sixteen, this time by Isadore. Like most Raspberries, he still had all his teeth and was strong enough to remain upright in heavy gravity, even when carrying Melody. The two of them discovered the stationary of the Continental Driving School and a gross of ball-point pens on the 64th floor, which Swain would use to write his autobiography. They followed Wilbur's lead in the names of things, such as calling Manhattan "Skyscraper National Park" or "Angkor Wat", as well as referring to the call of a whippoorwill as "the cry of the Nocturnal Goatsucker". With Vera, they planned a large party for Swain's one hundred and first birthday. Isadore was tone deaf and only knew two songs, "Happy Birthday to You" and "Row, Row, Row Your Boat". Swain considered teaching him and Melody "We're Off to See the Wizard" at his one hundred and first birthday party.