Grey Area
“Cos in his condition it wouldn’t like be a . . . be a –’‘Good idea for him to be alone?’‘Yeah, thassit. So we’re standing there, right. All four of us, in the bathroom, and David’s doing what he has to do. And we’re still talking about it.’‘It?’‘The historic present. Because Diane – you know Diane?’‘Sort of.’‘Well, she says the historic present is, like . . . er . . . like, more emotionally labile than other tenses. Yeah, thass what she says. Anyways, she’s saying this and David is, like, steam...ing, man . . . I mean to say he’s really plummeting. It’s like he’s being de-cored or something. This isn’t just Montezuma’s revenge, it’s everyone’s revenge. It’s the revenge of every deracinated group of indigenes ever to have had the misfortune to encounter the European. It’s a sort of collective curse of David’s colon. It’s like his colon is being crucified or something.’‘He’s anally labile.’‘Whadjewsay?’‘He’s anally labile.’Labile, labile.MoreLess
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