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whereby every youth 15 or older, every maiden 13 or older, was
qualified for marriage ." "Qualified" sure. Whereas I, at my age, (and
since he was whispering so) : "Come on, let's move back
&
forth
instead."). / But then I couldn't resist the notion any longer. -
"Don't you want to swap for tonight, Ernst? : You two can sleep in
the house; we in the mini-bus?
!"
(And he honored it with a nod;
giving the frailties of the "flesh" their due. Thought, too, of the
pleasures of variety; and added his crowning-canonizing endorse–
ment : "Agreed.") -
"Come on, see it through: sex times more back and forth
!". /
For Helios was already showing us his rear wheels. The potato
maids, their chassis fully dusted, stomped homeward . And naught
but twilight fruits-of-reading had begun to run through Ernst's mind
: "'AVALON' : an eternal sunset behind apple trees in bloom. In the
midst of a meadow there, IDISTAVISO, the 'Fountain of
Forgetfulness.' 'Heroic shades' slouching about, blown-glass hollow,
there in the English ray grass." - : "Sure would be nice -"; me,
gasping hunchbacked sweat-drenched bent-over cataract-eyed
deafened crescent-shaped sector-scything autochthonous . . . ..
. . . . . and jerked myself up
!
Such female screeching behind
me : "Be-care-full ! The sloe-tree-Carl !!" - / And whip back the
homicidal tool: ! : ! ! . / And for starters gape stupidly at it; where
the dark red ran from the tips of the toes of my right foot. : all fivev–
em properly slashed! (And only then did there come a fine, most
scalping pain. My nylon sox were shot to - uh-hell, too.). / An
opinion poll produced the following results . - ELLA :" - perdu . -:
Irrational ! -". PAULA : "You see; 1 of the branches is gone ! - I'll
put some SAGROTAN in the water for you.". ERNST: "When a person's
beheaded the torso just keeps on vomiting sometimes." - My first
urge was to say something. But then I pictured said bubbling of
blood
&
barf by the beheaded . - And, limping decoratively away,
made my exit; into the bathroom.)
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(It
certainly looked snazzy, that bright red bathroom-line,
wrapped around my 5 toes now. (And that'd be wrapped around
them for some time to come !). And the LYSOL-ersatz stung : well, go
ahead and sting! / But it had its good side too: Ernst had to finish
the mowing. I was nursed-indulged-pitied. (And the inevitable eve–
ning ring-toss and badminton would be spared me for the next 14
