Don't Call Me Ishmael (2011)
Don't Call Me Ishmael
“25.
EVERYONE’S ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINION Somehow, thanks to Scobie, we managed to pull some kind of a case together and scramble to our first debate. Ignatius was first speaker, Orazio was second, Scobie was third and Bill Kingsley (when it was brought to his attention by a dig in the ribs from Razza) was chair. I was the cheer squad. The amazing thing was that we won.
Prindabel knew his speech quite well but delivered it with all the passion of a chemical equation, while every now and ...then pulling out some obscure fact in a way that was every bit as unexpected and pointless as yanking a rabbit from a hat. Orazio was far less prepared, adlibbing most of his speech and trusting (wrongly, as it turned out) that his wit and natural charm would gloss over any weaknesses. To say we were ordinary would be generous–we aspired to ordinary. Fortunately for us, our opposition from Bugner High School made ordinary look stupendous. They reminded me of three guys who’d been dragged off the street and thrown into a police line-up.MoreLess
EVERYONE’S ENTITLED TO THEIR OPINION Somehow, thanks to Scobie, we managed to pull some kind of a case together and scramble to our first debate. Ignatius was first speaker, Orazio was second, Scobie was third and Bill Kingsley (when it was brought to his attention by a dig in the ribs from Razza) was chair. I was the cheer squad. The amazing thing was that we won.
Prindabel knew his speech quite well but delivered it with all the passion of a chemical equation, while every now and ...then pulling out some obscure fact in a way that was every bit as unexpected and pointless as yanking a rabbit from a hat. Orazio was far less prepared, adlibbing most of his speech and trusting (wrongly, as it turned out) that his wit and natural charm would gloss over any weaknesses. To say we were ordinary would be generous–we aspired to ordinary. Fortunately for us, our opposition from Bugner High School made ordinary look stupendous. They reminded me of three guys who’d been dragged off the street and thrown into a police line-up.MoreLess
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