My Hero (2012)
“True, when you’re putting together a fast bowler out of whatever you can lay your hands on, you take what you can get and are thankful. Nevertheless . . .
‘Now then, Stanley lad,’ muttered Norman, backing away and finding that the shed was rather smaller than he remembered. ‘Stay ont’ workbench until I tell thee otherwise. Stanley! Be told!’ With an eerie grinding noise (Oh bugger, thought Norman, forgot to oil t’eyelid bearings) its eyes opened. And - graunch graunch, grind grind - blinked twi...ce. Its lips mouthed noiselessly, as if it had suddenly discovered in mid sentence that it had forgotten how to speak.
‘What about,’ squeaked Norman, ‘a nice cup of tea?’ A shudder ran through the Thing, and it made a little gurgling noise at the back of its throat. Norman tried walking backwards through the shed wall, ineffectually.
‘. . . And, by a sleep, to say we end, The heartache and the thousand natural shocks. That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Jesus bloody Christ where the fucking hell am I?’ it said.MoreLess
‘Now then, Stanley lad,’ muttered Norman, backing away and finding that the shed was rather smaller than he remembered. ‘Stay ont’ workbench until I tell thee otherwise. Stanley! Be told!’ With an eerie grinding noise (Oh bugger, thought Norman, forgot to oil t’eyelid bearings) its eyes opened. And - graunch graunch, grind grind - blinked twi...ce. Its lips mouthed noiselessly, as if it had suddenly discovered in mid sentence that it had forgotten how to speak.
‘What about,’ squeaked Norman, ‘a nice cup of tea?’ A shudder ran through the Thing, and it made a little gurgling noise at the back of its throat. Norman tried walking backwards through the shed wall, ineffectually.
‘. . . And, by a sleep, to say we end, The heartache and the thousand natural shocks. That flesh is heir to, ’tis a consummation Jesus bloody Christ where the fucking hell am I?’ it said.MoreLess
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