Look, if Ivan Yakovlevitch can lose his nose I feel pretty entitled to lose my shoes, k' buddy?So, everyone is leaving. Except these two losers below
Buy me a plane ticket to Frankfurt or Uppsala and I'll be happy to leech off their hospitality. I'm the world's oldest war-orphan and " ¡No hablo Swedish!"
My paternoster gave me some good advice. Don't fight with the Mafia, wake up at 5 o'clock. buy shoes with straps, not laces, don't go teach English in China. I never listened to nuthin he ever said. April 1 1945 . Tom Pynchon used this well. April Fool's Day.
Enter the cucumber above.
My Pap tolt me beware of teachers what strap on cucumbers. An' back home to Appleate'cha, we never wore no lacy shoes. Any at all come to think on it. Part of our school's environmental awareness program. "Them hookworms need a place to live, too," like Mr. Gerkin the teacher tolt us.
By the way, Nikolai Gogol,auther of `The Nose' referenced above' was one of the few people that successfully starved themself to death. Another notable person was Kurt Godel; though there were also a few Irish prisoners in England that did such.
Enter with all due supplication and recalcitrance the elephant below , or above, as the case may be.