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] Date Posted: 07:19:02 11/21/02 Thu Author Host/IP: NoHost/64.30.15.252 In reply to: betty brant 's message, "running with scissors by augusten burroughs in amusing in places" on 01:06:39 11/21/02 Thu TESTIFY BETTY >page 92: > >"we'll need more pink balloons for his hat," hope >said. "pink is his favorite color." > >in the end, we inflated about sixty balloons, tying >them to his hat, his umbrella, looping them through >the buttonholes of his long black wool coat that he >intended to wear despite the heat. we tied balloons >around our own waists and we even attached two >balloons to agnes, one over each breast. > >"i'm not going out in public like this," agnes >complained. "give me some more of them, so i can tie >some somewhere else. i can't have just these two." > >overhearing agnes's complaint, the doctor stepped into >the room, now dressed in his suit. "no, agnes," he >boomed. "these are the only balloons you should have. >you are the matriarch of the family, the great >breast-feeder, and that's what these balloons >symbolize." > >"oh, phooey," she said. "i don't buy it." > >"i said, you will wear only those two balloons! they >are your breastloons." > >"breastloons, that's funny, dad. i like that," hope >said. > >"you do?" he said, his eyebrows twitching. "then you >shall only wear two balloons too." > >half an hour later, dr. finch headed out of his house >wearing his balloon-covered coat, holding his >balloon-covered rainbow high above his head. pink >balloons on pink ribbon trailed from his hat. > >hope and i followed a few paces behind him carrying a >sign that read, UNITE THE FATHERS OF THE WORLD. TODAY >IS WORLD FATHER'S DAY!!!!! i was covered with >balloons; they were even tied through my belt loops. >but hope had only two balloons, one over each breast. > >hope's younger sister anne walked behind us with her >young son, poo. anne was annoyed that she'd been >tricked into being in the parade, and refused to wear >the breastloons, but she did carry one. and poo, of >course, had six or seven balloons which were tied to >his ankles and dragged on the ground. > >next was natalie. she'd agreed to the breastloons, but >also insisted on wearing sunglasses and a large hat so >that nobody she knew would recognize her on the street. > >my mother was at the tail end of the parade, looking >extremely nervous and distracted. she held one small >white balloon in her right hand and her cigarette in >the other. she kept enough of a distance so that it >appeared she'd just been an average woman, out on an >average walk, who just happened to come upon a small >white balloon which she just happened to pick up. i >wasn't sure if she was ashamed in to be in the parade, >or if she just needed to have her meds adjusted. > >"i'm not feeling all that well today," she'd told me >earlier. "i'm in the middle of a new poem and it's >extremely draining." [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] |
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Date Posted: 13:09:43 11/21/02 Thu Author Host/IP: ppp-66-63-129-171.sndg-c5300-3.dialup.nethere.net/66.63.129.171 now i am reading [i]untimely meditations[/i] by friedrich nietzsche. if i encounter any funny passages i will post them. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Steve Hogan [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:10:15 11/21/02 Thu Author Host/IP: NoHost/64.30.15.252 >now i am reading [i]untimely meditations[/i] by >friedrich nietzsche. if i encounter any funny passages >i will post them. That stuff's a scream I hear. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |
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Author: Steve Hogan [ Edit | View ] |
Date Posted: 15:10:17 11/21/02 Thu Author Host/IP: NoHost/64.30.15.252 >now i am reading [i]untimely meditations[/i] by >friedrich nietzsche. if i encounter any funny passages >i will post them. That stuff's a scream I hear. [ Post a Reply to This Message ] |