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how they frequently find dead birds there, especially owlets, strange
to say. Ernst made a note of the fact; Ella's lips formed the requisite
pucker of empathy.)
And retaliated with the exciting account of that Irish Night
0'
New Moon; when through the busslet's window (left open on
account of the humidity), a felonious hand had come feeling its way
along: - : first twice on his nose. Then on Ella's left, practically
exposed, breast. And she, the resolute damsel, without uttering 1
word, had fumbled in the toolbox for the pincers - listened - right
: a fourth round of groping. At which she had taken hold of 1 finger
of the party in question with aforesaid utensil : ! . - All quiet;
Nothing said by nobody. - Only from outside there came some–
thing like deeper intakes of breath. Trampling. And a penitentiarial
wheeze now
&
again. (And all the while she's squeezing! Charming.
But for that sort of thing one probably needs a doll's conscience. -
Nevertheless I admit I now viewed this ingenious mobile home with
greater interest : at 2 meters 15, how had it ever made it through our
entrance gate! ?).
2
: "Hey look at that !" -
- ? - ! : for real; a small advertising-Zeppelin floating ever so
merrily and silverfishily along the farthest rim of the vapor forest.
"'DUJARDIN or TRuMPF,' aut-aut !" (But even with binox it couldn't
be made out. One could, however, see individual trees, like puffs of
smoke : with hat-shaped heads, plus some like champagne glasses,
troops of tapering brushes; they stood, in all likelihood, on the floor
of their ocean of air, swaying back & forth in sync. Nor could that
"transitional low" be very nasty: otherwise They would never have
ascended in that thing in the first place.) / The tall television tower, a
spindly-red stripe, was clearly visible as wei!. At first Ernst mistook
it for your basic guileless factory smokestack: ? : "Listen, friend, that's
the tallest piece of construction in Central
&
Western Europe !"; me,
indignant. And he, impressed: "Where exactly?". I showed them all
the spot on my 1: 100,000 map: "East of federal highway 4 ; near
Boke!." / ? / And, with autopedic nimbleness, elaborate the plan for
a drive-over. / ? / Till the ladies gave their approval; and set to
clearing the table more quickly . (A tire as a base; what won't them
students come up with next !)
Meanwhile Ernst
&
I by ourselves; smoking. / He certainly
