The Captain and the Glory_An Entertainment by Dave Eggers

Author:Dave Eggers [Eggers, Dave]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: humour
ISBN: 9780525659082
Goodreads: 48189984
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Published: 2019-11-19T00:00:00+00:00

XII

FOR AVA, LIFE was perhaps more confusing than for most passengers on the Glory. Before the ascendance of the Captain, she had extolled the virtues of virtue, only to see her fellow passengers, the ostensible adults aboard, give all their earthly power to a man they all knew to be cretinous, erratic, nihilistic and dim. After the election, she had returned home to find a giant chicken in her family’s cabin. It was her own father, dressed in the garb of the Most Foul. “Honey,” he said, and held out his feathered arms. “We needed a change.”

Her mother sat next to her father, rolling her eyes.

“Your father,” she said, “is a moron for the time being. But we can agree to disagree, and we can love each other still.”

Ava fled, disbelieving, feeling betrayed and lost. She wandered the ship in a state of catatonia that lasted weeks.

When she returned, she found her father in his usual chair, though his eyes were icy and inanimate.

“They took her,” he said. “The Snowmen. She was Certain. I should have known.”

Ava screamed. She circled the ship screaming. She screamed until she could no longer scream or stand or breathe, and finally she returned to the door to her family’s cabin, knowing that her mother was gone and all she had left was her father, who at least she knew, now, would have regained his senses. When she opened the door, though, he was still sitting where she’d left him, and was still dressed as a chicken.

“Laws are laws,” he said, his voice steady and distant. He then talked at length about what he and his motherless daughter would do with the $1.50 the Captain had promised. As he mused, his eyes regained some of their life, but a thunderous knock at the door ended his reverie.

Three Snowmen burst into the room, grabbed Ava’s father roughly, and stood him atop a portable scale they had brought with them. After a few tsks containing both disappointment and glee, the Snowmen told Ava’s father that he was overweight and disgusting, and—with help from three more Snowmen—threw him over the railing.

SORRY ABOUT ORPHANS!

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