Faust Among Equals (2012)
“They were only just in time.
Not that they were to know that, of course. They circled for a while, making kawk-kawk noises and generally getting used to being seagulls again. Oddly enough, what both of them found strangest was being without their watches.
‘It’s like riding a bicycle,’ Larry observed.
‘Bloody uncomfortable, yeah.’ ‘No, I meant—’ ‘And cold. And very, very tiring.’ Mike tilted his wingtips and dropped down a hundred feet or so. ‘Right,’ he said, ‘we’d better report in, I guess. Wh...ere’s the map?’ Larry looked at him. ‘What map?’ ‘The street map.’ ‘I thought you had it.’ ‘Don’t be dumb. How can I carry a goddamn street map in a seagull outfit? You think I’ve got pockets in the wings or something?’ Larry made no reply. He’d been putting up with Mike’s logic for approximately twice as long as America had been an independent nation, and although it still occasionally had the power to make him want to scream, he had built up a sort of immunity to it; apparently, you can do the same thing with arsenic, if you take a microscopic amount each day.MoreLess
Not that they were to know that, of course. They circled for a while, making kawk-kawk noises and generally getting used to being seagulls again. Oddly enough, what both of them found strangest was being without their watches.
‘It’s like riding a bicycle,’ Larry observed.
‘Bloody uncomfortable, yeah.’ ‘No, I meant—’ ‘And cold. And very, very tiring.’ Mike tilted his wingtips and dropped down a hundred feet or so. ‘Right,’ he said, ‘we’d better report in, I guess. Wh...ere’s the map?’ Larry looked at him. ‘What map?’ ‘The street map.’ ‘I thought you had it.’ ‘Don’t be dumb. How can I carry a goddamn street map in a seagull outfit? You think I’ve got pockets in the wings or something?’ Larry made no reply. He’d been putting up with Mike’s logic for approximately twice as long as America had been an independent nation, and although it still occasionally had the power to make him want to scream, he had built up a sort of immunity to it; apparently, you can do the same thing with arsenic, if you take a microscopic amount each day.MoreLess
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