Vonnegut, Kurt - Novel 09 by Slapstick or Lonesome No More (v5.0)

Author:Slapstick or Lonesome No More (v5.0)
Language: eng
Format: mobi
Published: 0101-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

Policemen kept the crowd from following Eliza and Mushari into the house, and I closed the drapes on the windows, so no one could see in.

When I was sure we had privacy, I said to her bleakly, “What brings you here?”

“Lust for your perfect body, Wilbur,” she said. She coughed and laughed. “Is dear Mater here, or dear Pater?” She corrected herself. “Oh, dear—dear Pater is dead, isn’t he? Or is it dear Mater? It’s so hard to tell.”

“Mother is in Turtle Bay, Eliza,” I lied. Inwardly, I was swooning with sorrow and loathing and guilt. I estimated that her crushed ribcage had the capacity of a box of kitchen matches. The room was beginning to smell like a distillery. Eliza had a problem with alcohol as well. Her skin was bad. She had a complexion like our great-grandmother’s steamer trunk.

“Turtle Bay, Turtle Bay,” she mused. “Did it ever occur to you, dear Brother, that dear Father was not our Father at all?”

“What do you mean?” I said.

“Perhaps Mother stole from the bed and out of the house on a moonlit night,” she said, “and mated with a giant sea turtle in Turtle Bay.”

Hi ho.

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