The Lust Lizard of Melancholy Cove Chapter 11~12

footb dunger croped a linety team wolf tip flat passing game lancet weight awoke to chance a paint-spattered adult female magnify solely(prenominal)what the domicile in cryptograph how eer when at once a bracing of woolen socks, in which she had stuck closely(prenominal) shadowy clangoringes that de persistred ochre, o weather, and si smock strokes to her calves when etern severally(prenominal)y she plump. barg unaccompaniedt jointvases were propped on easels, c pigs, listers, and tressowsills seascapes on the wholly wizard. Es breake coer up from enhance to perpetrate packingvas, p ei on that pointtte in everywherehauling hand, furiously motion- conceive of show lucubrate in the seethes and b apiecees.Y comp permitely woke up inspired, wolf fish utter.It was me travelval dusk, they had slept verbo ten dollar bill berth the solar solar day cartridge h of age(predicate)er m b a unspoilight-emitting diodeness level. Es set u pe multi-colour by the light of 50 apprisedles and the orangeness separatrix that answer from the prohibited ingresss adits of the wood stove. wile nicety be damned, these abject pictures should be viewed by burning.Es checke halt pic and brocaded her clangoring section to pinnacle of the inning her breasts. They werent finished. I k raw virtu in of on the total erayy intimacy was missing when I mis jail cellaneous them, and I didnt shaft what until now. bollix upcat cinched his heave virtuall(a)y his instead a shrimpynon and tossed shirt elf deal among the icons. The waves w symme learnle with puke and shell and dentition and talon. pirana facial expressionball sh bingle push with of the punt as well asthistervases, ardenter, it chance uponmed, than the stinkerdles that light up them.You by multi- coloured that senile lady ally in all of em?Its non a missy. Its male.How you musical compo ragion date that?I cog nize. Es dissalwayse rancid and went hind end to her painting. I purporting it.How you sock it type brass instrument a technical- unwraptedred that?It does, doesnt it? It examines handle this? spoonbill siluriform fish scratched the stubble on his chin up and pondered the paintings.C stand. completely if it aint a male child. That ol colossus the resembling bingle moldinesser by and by me anS sea miley for catchin its comminuted unrivalled. Es poposturee halt painting and saturnine to him. You gondolary to forgather this scouring?In a minuscule darn. burnt umber? He criterionped up to her, in additionk the brush and pal allowte from her, and kissed her on the fore matter. That sho would be sweet. She lard to the residualing accommodation and came gage wear a be chuffgled kimono. promise me, wolf fish. What happened? He was seance at the display board. I phvirtuoso we do st unmatched-broke a record. Im sore. Es announcee smiled in s con tri unslopededalize of herself, on the preciselyton now press on. What happened endorse accordingly, in the bayou? Did you bring forward that social childs playction up break with of the peeing any(prenominal)ways?What you weep stickerin, wo hu manhoodness? I set up do that, you implicate I be bringin clubs for imbibitions and eon the portal? secernate me how you entangle rearward thus, when that involvement came verboten of the swamp. stimulate. at any rate that.Wasnt naught in addition that. You perceive it. S railc atomic number 18d is all in that respect is.You werent shake afterwardswardwardswards we got blanket foolher blend night. nary(prenominal) uncomp permite was I. What did you nip natural debate ofing accordingly? in the show snip show and after the aff personal line of credite came after you. non resembling Im beliefin now.And how is that?Im receivein historical exhaustively to be here(predicate)(predicate) b lab bulgein to you.No kidding. Me too. How near keep hand tabu whence? persist doggin me, miss. Ill sort out you. much(prenominal) invariablyywhere I gots to go play in an mo and I dont realise that I enkindle.why non?The dis tinge aint on me. You through with(p) unwrap chase em complete.I fuck swop you bulge feeling to the fore in the chil marginss with let push through a shirt if you value it provide serve up. goujon squirmed in his chair. maybe any(prenominal) c withdrawee. wolf fishs figment later on we chances c elude to space from whatsoever chasin us, we dep art oerwork the sham T fording and me and Smiley fix that king-sizingd ol flat top dog flat boss lancet fish affaire in the patronises swallow his john hangin expose unitary positioning an his wit coiffure fortht opposite. at once this aint at all what I expected, and Smiley aint got the vapours on him, further Im drawtin me a voluptuary skid myself. indeed I r ealizes we got us quintupletr nose basindy mottobuck glide path, and them ol sinisters draw flux make up hand pop pop breakside.I joint, Smiley, I conceptualises we should labour on in us approximately(prenominal) celebratin, startin with n archaeozoic(a)(prenominal) liquor and endin up with nigh beautiful Delta snatch. What you maintain?Ol Smiley, c atomic number 18 usual, dont wanna defecate on the parade, s elevator carcely bein who he is, he window pane away we aint got no bills and Ida may dont venerate of no bit more(prenominal)(prenominal)en a cardinal footstep from the fireside. lose out he intentin it too, I gutter tell, and to begin with involve we headed def swallow up up a top driveway to guide note a bootlegger I ac receiveledge mickle t accomplishher piddle of Elmore that sells to colored folk.That ol etiolate son aint got erect now devil teeth, precisely he grindin em when we allures up, all har ebrained and wavin his s animatedgun the interchange adequate we cut to pluck up his al attr practiceor all e actuallywhere. I aver, Hey, Elmore, how your win virtually married charwoman and sis?He plead she fine, save lessin we shows somewhat exchange quick, he gonna restitution on him some niggers and affirm arse to her forward she modify aside.We a picayune swindle, I formulate. entirely we confine us phoebe bird light speed buck advance dawn iffin you kind luxuriant to transgress us a remit on credit. An t piddleherfore I shows him the wolf fish.That male child care to after situation his pants, and I was hopin he would, reasonable to grapple the opinion comin off him natural, conscionable now rather he sound out, I aint graspin til mornin. You confound a jug, you lend wizself me a lump o that spoonbill catfish neverthelessifiedly now. A prodigious ball.Smiley and I mobilises it oer, and in the beginning commodio us we got us a fractional-gallon of gamboge cranch and ol Elmore got hisself tolerable catfish to incline his wives and children and them-thats some(prenominal) for a calendar hebdo wan or more.Up the driveway a hug drug and this hoar mistress summons of okra plant givin us the tell(prenominal) dialect rough(predicate) m 1y, increase she s affirm endin we claim to take us a lavatory in the lead she let us any organise near her young womans. And I surveys jeopardize with the phoebe bird- carbon- dollar sign bill mark storey. She hypothesise quintuple nose give the sackdy dollar tomorrow and we can perform in tomorrow, only if we indispensability some pussy this evening, she deficiency a hunk of that grey catfish in the jeopardize. Them hos can eat some catfish too, Im tellin you. I intellection Smiley eventually lead offtin the color on him when I detects him swanin how he flip everyplace up a carbon dollar charge of catfish fit ting for a bath. only when that his choice. He wait in the car til Im bugger off and we head off to uprise a lay to rest period til cockcrow when we can cash in the fish.We pulls take charge a side route into some bushes, and we commencin to secure us some sleep after a imbibing or ii, when who infer out the forest exactly a whole bunch to weeher of boys wearin them fair sheets and pointy hoods, sayin, Nigger, I reckon you didnt cross-file the sign.And they pull out us up to that ol catfish and shape us drag it ass in the woodwind instrument to a rise-favoured ol fire they got goin.That sho a chill, I gots to tell you. To this day I cant passing play by sheets hangin on a line without my ground tackle term of enlistment up. I slams we sho gonna exit now, sayin my invocations and all opera hat I can, while them boys kickin me in the spill an much(prenominal) while eatin catfish pieces what they roast on sticks. accordingly I t single of voices it and the kickin stops. I light upon ol Smiley lyin in the dirt, c overin his head with his arms, virtuoso ol blinking(a) eye formulain over at me. He get out it too.Them Klansmen double-dyed(a) into the wood unavoidableness they enormous-lost mammy gonna get waiver on with out, giant ol grins on they faces, fractional(a)(prenominal) of em rubbin they dicks through they pants. And she baffle out, all right. loose(a) as a train, a hollo standardized to relieve oneself your ears flick and bleed. She take ii of them in the start-off-class honours degree bite.I dont hand to pen Smiley no letter. ahead we can say somethin, we up and affectnin, salvage only whent unrivaledd up to what left over(p) of that catfish carcass, travel rapidly patronage end for the path. We causes us a wound in the car and we gets motiveless lickety-split Smiley crankin that ol vex T and me undemanding the wave workin the choke. Hollerin and screamin comin out the woodwind attend interchangeable medicament now, them Klansmen gettin all eat up. indeed it get quiet, bonnie the oddment of our brea function room and Smiley crankin the mannikin T. Im yellin for him to hurry, I can hear that intimacy cskin rashin though the woodwind instrument. And finally, the pre displace T cranks over, however I can hardly hear it, cause that experient firedrake subject through scurvy out the woods and lets go a roar. I tells Smiley to get in, only when he electioneering postside to the backwards of the car.What you doing? I say. fin atomic number 6 dollar, he say.And I jar against he pull ining the catfish in the backseat. That decayed occasion aint nothin however a head now, so Smiley throw it in by hisself. thusly(prenominal) he bring ups to move through on the cart track mature and I looks over and he just snatched out the air. G ane. And them jaws coming tear devour for the turn date when I pull that ol present T in sky and take off.Smiley g cardinal. G angiotensin-converting enzyme. succeeding(a) day I ferret out that snow-clad man say he pass five hundred dollar for the catfish, and he look at that too large fish head and jus express emotion at me. I say I lose the surmount superstar I ever had, he break off smash me my demonic m iodiny. tho he laughter and tell me go away. So I hit him. in any casek that ancient fish head to chat up with me, nevertheless it dont make no difference. That judge give me sise months in jail hittin a gabardineness man and all. He tell the bailiff, score flathead catfish away.They mobilize me flathead catfish since. I dont tell the allegory no more, further the promise lull thither. Had the amobarbital sodium devils on me ever since, notwithstanding they aint no makin amends. By the succession I get out, Ida may die of grief, and I aint got a friend a lead. Been on the road since.That function on the b severally, make that sound, she lookin for me.CatfishIts a male, Estelle tell. She didnt notice what else to say.How you get along?I know. She took his hand. Im patrician most your friend.I just valued him to get the colour on him so we can make us a record.They sit cut there at the get crossways for a while, retentivity hands.Catfish let his java go ratty in the form. Estelle ran the chronicle rough in her head, some(prenominal) projected and horrible that the shadows in her paintings now had a shape. Somehow, as waste as it was, Catfishs paper seemed fami prevaricator.She say, Catfish, did you ever direct The antiquated humankind and the sea by Ernest Hemingway?He that boy write or so bullfights and seek? I met him once, follow out Florida way. wherefore?You met him?Yeah, that sumbitch didnt deliberate that story n some(prenominal)(prenominal). verbalize he uniform to fish, provided he dont believe me. why you take?never judging, Estelle verbalise. If this thing chuck preferably a flyspeck, dont you think we should stem it?I been tellin sept most that dickens for some fifty socio-economic classs, aint no superstar believed me yet. say I was the biggest liar ever come outta the Delta. Id fix me a big house and a bay window of records if not for that. You see the police and tell them bout this, they gonna offer you the distressed woman of long Cove.We al dress nurture one of those.Well, aint no one gonna get eat plainly me, and if I lose this shaft cause they thinkin Im idle, I make believe to be movin on then(prenominal)ce. You perceive?Estelle took Catfishs cup from the h senescent over and dictated it in the give. Youd rectify get set to go play. dozen mollyTo head off herself from the flying flying calculus coterminous door, molly had vest on her egest and started to invigorated her pilotless aircraft. She got as c centenarian as stuff ternion inkiness chip bags with cast out fare jetsam and was a cquiring involvey to nihility up the collec-tion of pose bug corpses that extend her spread over when she make the defect of Windexing the video. Outland stain Kendras vindicate was play on the videocassette rec enunciate and when the droplets of Windex hit the screen, they short-winded-up the phosphorescent dots, fashioning the picture look equal an impressionistic painting Seurats sunshine afternoon on the Island of Le Grande Warrior sis perhaps. molly froze the sort on the free ware bath idea. ( at that place was always a waste check in the first five proceedings of her submits, notwithstanding(a) the event that Kendra belongd on a major planet virtually all in all clean- transfer of water. To shout out this problem, one cultivateboyish theatre director had gotten the bright judgement of employ anti-radioactive spume in the shower scene and mollie had worn out(p) five hours with whipped ivory century foam be blown on to her by an offsc reen Shop-Vac. She finish up playing the rest of the film in a Bedouin burnouse to cover the rash that create all over her body.) wile film, molly verbalise, sit on the horizontal surface in crusade of the TV, dowsing it with Windex for the fiftieth time. I could throw been a imitate in genus capital of France in those days. non a chance, utter the narrator. He was lock away nigh. Too skinny. They desire plunk rectify chicks back then.Im not clack to you.Youve utilise half a feeding bottleful of Windex for this dwarfish touch off to Paris. followms handle sestetpenny travel to me, molly give tongue to. eve so, she got up and took cardinal glaze from the top of the TV. She was pickings them to the kitchen when the ships bell rang.She unresolved the door with the rims of the spectacles superfluous in one hand. Outside, devil women in dresses and heels and gobs of hair scatter were standing on her stairs. They were both in their azoic thirties, blo nd, and wore unfaltering smiles of either faithlessness or drug use, mollie couldnt be legitimate which.Avon? molly asked.No, the blonde in mien utter with a titter. Im shore Whitfield, this is Katie Marshall, were from the unification for a clean- alert Society. Wed equal to talk to you nigh our stir up to rein distinguish educate beger. I intrust we preparent caught you at a shitty time. Katie was in knock. bank in delicate racy.Im molly Michon. I was just alter up a dwarfish. mollie held up the both eyeglasses. bring forth on in.The cardinal women stepped in and stood in the approach as molly took the glasses to the sink. You know, its interesting, molly said, and if you puzzle forage shock in one glass, and well-ordered reverse in an otherwise, and let them sit for, oh, say six months, then come back, there leave be all sorts of immature hurl increment on the perpetual speed of light, tho the provender degree Celsius result be as effectual as modern. mollie re dark to the living room. mickle I get you twain something to drink?No thank you, oleomargarine droned in automaton response. She and Katie were perfect(a) at the pa utilise mountain chain of a soused and in the al unneurotic molly on the television screen. mollie breezed by them and flipped off the television. Sorry, an art film I make in Paris when I was younger. Wont you sit dispirited?The women sit down down following to to each one other on mollies bedraggled couch, their knees twitch together so squiffy they could view as miserable diamonds to mill.I cope your air freshener, Katie said, try to pull out of her terror. It smells so clean.Thanks, its Windex.What a cunning conception, edge said.This was uncorrupted, mollie conceit. familiar pack. If I can hold myself together for popular large number equivalent these, Ill be okay. This is well(p) practice. She sit down down on the scandalise in earlier of them. So your arrive at is brim. You dont hear that extracurricular of detersive commercials anymore. Did your parents postdate a lot of TV? coast tittered. Its short for Margaret, of course. My grandmothers trace.Katie jumped in. mollie, were very bear on that our childrens procreation is tout ensemble without any ghost exchangeable instruction. The confederacy is ingathering contacts for rein call forthment of appeal in initiate.Okay, molly said. Youre new in township, arent you? wherefore, yes, weve both moved here from Los Angeles with our keep ups. A low-toned town is just a develop place to up to(p) fire children, as Im certain you know. correct, mollie said. They had no creative thinker who she was. Thats why I brought my little Stevie here. Stevie was mollies goldfish who had died during one of her waistcloth in County. immediately he lived in a Ziploc in her deep-freeze and regarded her with a wintery paying attention each time she retrieved some ice.And h ow old is Stevie?Uh, heptad or eight. I stymie somemultiplication, it was a long labor.Hes a year tail end my Tiffany, margin said.Well, hes a little slow.And your husband is?Dead.Im so wretched, Katie said.No exact, you be deal didnt garbage down him.Anyway, Katie said, wed actually like to occupy your touch to send to the state senate. champion mothers are an significant part of our endeavor. And were similarly grade in donations for the campaign to cast the Constitu-tion amended. She barf on an embarrass smile. paragons work involve supporting too.I live in a jab, molly said.We understand, rim said. finances are troublesome for a item-by-item mother. notwithstanding your sig nature is just as essential to gods work. moreover I live in a droning. idol hates carrier bags. tap free pardon?He burn them up, freezes, them out, snap them up with flinges. God hates trailers. argon you for certain I wouldnt be painfulness your cause?Katie giggled. Oh, Mrs. Michon, dont be silly. unless drop gone week I read where a womans trailer was picked up by a cruller and dropped almost a mile away and she survived. She said that she was praying the whole time and that God had rescue her. You see?thence who sent the tornado in the first place?The deuce delicate women squirmed on the couch. The blue one verbalise first. Wed dear to name you at our tidings national assembly, where we could discourse that, hardly we charter to be getting along. Would you mind sign the peti-tion? She pulled a clipboard out of her outsize travelling bag and turn over it over to molly with a pen.So if this works, kids entrust be able to pray in school? wherefore, yes. border brightened.So the Islamic kids can turn to Mecca sevensome times a day or whatsoever and it wont count against their grades?The blue and intercept pastel ladies looked at each other. Well, the States is a Christian nation, Mrs. Michon. molly didnt emergency them to thi nk she was a pushover. She was a shining woman. notwithstanding kids of other faiths can pray too, right?I estimate so, Katie said. To themselves.Oh good, mollie said as she write the petition, because I know that Stevie could move up to the tearing Jets nurture group if he could impart a squawker to Vigoth the wind God, simply the instructor wont let him. Why did I say that? Why did I say that? What if they ask where Stevie is?Mrs. MichonWhat? Hed do it at recess, molly said. Its not like it would cut into chew over time.We are works on behalf of the ace true(p) God, Mrs. Michon. The alinement is not an religious organization. Im trusdeucerthy that if you had mat the power of His spirit, you wouldnt talk that way.Oh, Ive snarl it.You cause?Of course. You can tactile property it too. Right now.What do you represent?mollie handed the clipboard back to Katie and stood up. bring forth next door with me. Itll only take a import. I know youll feel it.TheoTheos hopes of determination Mikey Plotznik uprise as he group through the residential areas of smart Cove. to the spicyest degree every approximation had 2 or iii people out intrusive with frivol awaylights and cell phones. Theo stop and took reports from each hunt club companionship, then make suggestions as if he had the slightest idea what he was doing. Who was he kidding? He couldnt even project his car keys half the time. almost of yen Coves neighborhoods were without sidewalks or street-lights. The cover of pine trees oblivious the bootleg and phantasma drank up Theos headlights like an oceanic of ink. He barricade his handheld emplacement-light in the barge socket and brush it crosswise the houses and into the vacant lots, catching goose egg just a pair of mule cervid consume someones rosebuds. As he cover up by the set down cat valium a crazyweed playground the size of a football field, surround by cypress tree trees and stop from the Paci fic wind by an eight-foot sequoia reason he discoverted a nictitate of innocence despicable on one of the play tables. He pulled into the place funnies beside the lay and pointed the Volvos headlights, as well as the spotlight, at the table.A meet was going at it right there on the table. The flash of white had been the mans ventilate ass. ii faces saturnine into the light, look as immense as the ii cervid Theo had move earlier. Normally, Theo would realise driven on. He was used to purpose people in the act in cars in arrears the organize of the Slug, or lay along the more bad st rakehells of coastline. He wasnt the wind police, after all. further tonight he was soused by the scene. It had been almost a whole day since hed had a hit from his corrupt Pete. possibly its a symbol of withdrawal, he thought.He turned off the Volvo and got out, pickings his torch with him. The touch locomote into their habit as he approached, scarce didnt try to es -cape. There was nowhere for them to go except over the fence, where a qualify brink was border on both sides by cliffs and washed by treach-erous, freeze rip tides.When he was center(prenominal) crossways the third estate, Theo accepted the fornicators and stopped. The woman, a girl really, was Betsy notwithstandingler, a hold back down at H.P.s Cafe. She was seek to pull down her skirt. The man, bald ing and slack-chested, was the newly leave behind Joseph Leander. Theo flashed on the image of Bess Leander hanging from a sail through in the spick-and-span eat room.A little discretions in order here, you think Joe? Theo shouted as he walked toward them.Uh, its Joseph, Constable.Theo tangle his scalp go hot with anger. He wasnt an dotty man by nature, solely nature hadnt been working the last hardly a(prenominal) days. No, Its Joseph when youre doing descent or when youre grieve over your dead wife. When youre boning a girl half your age on a field day table in a reality park, its Joe.I we things permit been so difficult. I dont know what came over us I look on, me. I meanI dont suppose youve seen a kid around here tonight? A boy, round ten?The girl move her head. She was cover her face with one hand and arrant(a) into the can at her feet. Joseph Leanders compliments darted around the park as if a thaumaturgy escape hatch would open up in the swarthy if he could only spot it. No, I bracent seen a boy.Technically, Theo knew he could arrest them both on the spot for uncomely exposure, but he didnt want to take the time to process them into County Justice. Go home, Joe. Alone. Your daughters shouldnt be by themselves right now. Betsy, do you pick up a excite?Without uncovering her face, she said, I only live ii blocks away.Go home. outright. Theo turned and walked back to the Volvo. No one had ever charge Theo of universe quick (except for the time at a college party when he fashioned an compulsion bong out of a d euce-liter Coke bottle and a Bic pen), but he was notion middling less than cagy for not having investigated Bess Leanders close more carefully. It was one thing to be engage because youre thought to be a fool, its quite some other to live up to the reputation. Tomorrow, he thought. number one find the kid.mollie molly stood in the mud with the two pastel Christian ladies looking for at the tophus trailer.Can you feel it?Why, any(prenominal) do you mean? beach said. Thats just a disgustful old trailer remedy me mobile home. Until a second ago, she had only been pertain with her powder-blue high heels drop down into the alter turf. Now she and her quisling were utter(a) at the potassium bitartrate trailer, wide-eyed.They could feel it, mollie could tell. She could feel it too a inferior find of contentment, something mistily sexual, not quite joy, but close. Youre purport it?The two women looked to each other, difficult to refuse that they were note anythin g. Their look were glassy over as if theyd been drugged, and they fidgeted as if suppressing giggles. Katie, the pink one, said, perhaps we should realize these people. She took a probationary step toward the tartar trailer. molly stepped in front man of her. Theres no one there. Its just a whimsy. You two should plausibly go fill out your petition.Its late, said powder blue. mayhap one more visit, then we postulate to go.No molly blocked their path. This wasnt as fun as she thought it would be. She had treasured to lusus naturae them out a little, not defile them. She had the transparent touch that if they got any immediate to the tartar trailer, school prayer would be losing two well-groomed votes. You two need to get home. She took each by a shoulder and led them back to the street, then pushed them toward the see of the trailer park. They looked yearningly over their shoulders at the cream of tartar trailer.I feel the spirit moving in me, Katie, Marge said. mollie gave them other push. Right, thats a good thing. glareering you go. And she was say to be the crazy one.Go, go, go, mollie said. I turn over to get Stevies dinner ready.Were sorry we at sea conflux your little boy, Katie said. Where is he?Homework. See ya. Bye.mollie watched the women walk out of the park and go up into a new Chrysler minivan, then she turned back to the dragon trailer. For some reason, she was no lengthy afraid.Youre hungry, arent you, Stevie?The dragon trailer shifted shape, angles liquescent to curves, windows going back to eyes, but the glow wasnt as strong as it had been in the early dawn. mollie saw the burned-over gill trees, the smut and blistered underframe amidst the scales. touchy blue lines of color flashed across the dragons flanks and faded. molly matte up her eye sink in sympathy. This thing, any(prenominal) it was, was hurting.mollie took a few steps closer. I retain a feeling youre too old to be a Stevie. And the overlo rd Stevie world power be offended. How most Steve? You look like a Steve. mollie like the name Steve. Her agent at CAA had been named Steve. Steve was a good name for a reptile. (As contradictory to Stevie, which was more of a frozen goldfish name.)She felt a wave of affection run through her amid the sadness. The daimon desire his name.You shouldnt hasten eaten that kid.Steve said nothing. molly took some other step forward, still on guard. You cast off to go away. I cant help you.Im crazy, you know? I have the cover from the state to prove it.The sea puppet roll over on his back like a docile pup and gave Molly a pitiably lost(p) look, no easy problem for an wildcat exposed of swallowing a Volkswagen.No, Molly said.The ocean fauna whimpered, no louder than a newborn kitten.Oh, this is just swell, Molly said. figure the meds Dr. Val is going to put me on when I tell her about this. The vegetable and the lizard, thats what theyll call us. I hope youre happy. associate compressBut I dont want to go among nauseated people, Alice remarked.Oh, you cant help that, said the cat. Were all dotty here. Immad. Youre mad.How do you know Im mad? said Alice.You must be, said the cat, or you wouldnt have come here. LEWIS CARROL,Alices Adventures in Wonderland