Friday, May 16, 2008

Karlsruhe Baden-Wurttemberg

The shamble leg man came down with the gout on a Saturday afternoon at exactly 27½ minutes past four. He remember the exact time, to the half-second, as that was when he first notice, and felt, the burning stitch in his big bigger biggest toe.

The preacher’s son wore a friar’s cap and spoke in non-syllabi grunts. The first outbreak of the gout was in a small Amish town in a small Amish community with a small cinderblock church and a friar’s monastery where the preacher’s son lived in a friar’s cell with a friar’s Bible and a wooden mallet for whacking himself upside of the head, an act of contrition and absolution, so he was told.

Before living with the friar’s in the friar’s monastery the preacher’s son lived in the following places, some for a short while others for a longer while:
Beyrouth Lebanon, Reykjavk Gullbringusysla, Og Vodafone Islandssimi, Iceland, Zgierz Lodz Kaczmarek Poland Gloucester College of Higher Education where he study Latin and Vectors, with little success, Gloucestershire UK, Cracow Malopolskie, the Academic Computer Centre where he drank enough computer cleaning fluid to keel over a large dog, Telefonica de Argentina where he worked as a ham-radio operator, again with little to middling success, Viedma Rio Negro Argentina, Karlsruhe Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany, London, City of London, Nuuk Netcafe v/A-Team/Comby ApS, Nuuk Vestgronland, Greenland, Penta College Schiphol, Noord-Holland the Netherlands, Vsters Vastmanlands Lan, Sweden, Koninklijke, Planet Technologies Noord-Holland the Netherlands, where he learned how to play chess blindfolded, with some success, NIB, National Internet Backbone, Lakhnau Uttar Pradesh, India, where he learned of the first outbreak of the gout from a Brahman, and Nocera Superiore, Campania Italy, where it was so hot he felt sickly and small.

1 comment:

Pearl said...

spoke in non-syllabi grunts.

ooh.


and a wooden mallet for whacking himself upside of the head, an act of contrition and absolution,

wood, good choice, a rubber mallet has a surprising weight to it. basswood is light but can do satisfying nerve damage by 1000 blows just the same.

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