Every Third Thought
Every Third Thought
“The grass has riz. I wonder where the flowers is?3 TO HIS PAL George Newett, “Solstices are mine,” Ned Prosper declared one late-March morning back in their Stratford High days (he having been born on one, Q.E.D.). And by the same reasoning, “Equinoxes are yours.”
Sixty years later, recollective G.I.N. assumes this declaration to have been made Nedward-style, his friend’s right fist clenched thumb-up for emphasis, and followed some while after by “On second thought [forefinger raised besi...de thumb and pointed Georgeward like a cocked pistol], I guess that gives me just the winter solstice and you the fall equinox, right? And so on third thought [raising middle finger to make three, then closing thumb and fore to make the Up Yours gesture with middle solo], fuck all that. Last day of winter! First of spring! Time to lose our fucking cherries, man!”
“The word that won the war,” British soldiers called that all-purpose Anglo-Saxon expletive,4 so common in adult fiction and film dialogue nowadays as to raise scarcely an eyebrow 5 (G.MoreLess
Sixty years later, recollective G.I.N. assumes this declaration to have been made Nedward-style, his friend’s right fist clenched thumb-up for emphasis, and followed some while after by “On second thought [forefinger raised besi...de thumb and pointed Georgeward like a cocked pistol], I guess that gives me just the winter solstice and you the fall equinox, right? And so on third thought [raising middle finger to make three, then closing thumb and fore to make the Up Yours gesture with middle solo], fuck all that. Last day of winter! First of spring! Time to lose our fucking cherries, man!”
“The word that won the war,” British soldiers called that all-purpose Anglo-Saxon expletive,4 so common in adult fiction and film dialogue nowadays as to raise scarcely an eyebrow 5 (G.MoreLess
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