The Daughters of Cain by Colin Dexter

Author:Colin Dexter [Dexter, Colin]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
ISBN: 9780330451260
Publisher: Fawcett
Published: 1994-01-01T22:00:00+00:00

Ten minutes later he made his way to the Gents, where he spat a globule of phlegm on to the tiled floor, and where his left hand was directing his urination whilst his right hand was seeking, wholly ineffectually, to spell out FUCK in red Biro on the corrugated surface of the wall in front of him.

"Fuck" was a key word in Costyn's limited vocabulary.

Had already been so for many years, ever since, night after night, his mum and dad (perhaps, his dad) had bawled their mutual "fuck-off's" at each other. Until the day when his dad had apparently interpreted the injunction rather too literally--and just, well, "fucked off." Indeed, so significant had the word become to the sole son of that hapless, un-happy union, that he regularly inserted it, in its present-participial form, into any lengthy-ish word which seemed to invite some internal profanation. Such a process is known, in the Homeric epics, as "tmesis"--although, in truth, Costyn knew of "Homer" only as a breed of pigeon; for his father had once kept such a pigeon, trained (once released) to find its way home from the most improbable distances.

Which is more than its owner had done, once he had left his home, and his wife, and his son...

and his pigeon.

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