The Fabulous Zed Watson! by Basil Sylvester

Author:Basil Sylvester [Sylvester, Basil]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2020-11-20T00:00:00+00:00

“This music is horrible,” I said.

Gabe handed me his headphones.

About seventeen million hours later, the opera finally ended and I was able to take off the headphones.

“Are we done torturing cats?” I said.

Gabe sighed. “Culture is lost on some people.”

“What a very Zeddish thing to say,” I said.

“So what the heck is a huzzah?” Sam asked as we headed across the Missouri state line.

“It’s a word that British soldiers used to cry to get pumped up for battle.”

“HUZZAH!” Gabe yelled.

“Geez!” Sam swerved slightly, then straightened out the car. “Do. Not. Do. That. Again.” She took a deep breath. “More explanation, please, Zed.”

When someone asks Zed Watson for an explanation, I oblige.

“Marion Arbuthnot is the name of Taylor’s revenant monster—or zombie, as they’re more generally called. He says ‘Huzzah’ in a chapter called ‘The Revenant’s Chest.’”

“Okay. Following so far.”

Gabe, lover of words, jumped in. “The title is actually a double pun because Arbuthnot has a chest where he hides his letters from Cassandra. But he also got shot in the chest.”

“He was killed by his own troops after he ‘betrayed’ them at the Battle of Bunker Hill. It wasn’t really a betrayal, though, because they were horrible people. He says at one point, ‘Is a cause for war just if the warriors are unjust?’”

“Legit Q,” said Sam.

“That was another controversial part of the book. In the chapter we have, Taylor portrayed the colonial soldiers as cruel and bloodthirsty. Marion was more of a pacifist.”

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