The Complete Pratt by David Nobbs

Author:David Nobbs [Nobbs, David]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Tags: Fiction, General, cookie429, Extratorrents, Kat
ISBN: 9781409065876
Publisher: Arrow
Published: 1998-01-01T00:00:00+00:00

15 Dark Days

DARK DAYS. RAIN, drizzle and fog. Suez, Hungary and Henry. Lost illusions. How small was Henry’s humiliation compared to the humiliation of Great Britain. How puny his loneliness compared to the rape of Budapest. But it was his own humiliation and loneliness that flooded him each morning when his alarm clock summoned him to the responsibilities of consciousness. How could it be otherwise? He wasn’t Budapest. He wasn’t the Suez Canal. He was Henry Ezra Pratt, locked in that little body of his.

He couldn’t tell anybody about Anna, couldn’t turn her into one of his funny stories, couldn’t become Henry ‘Ee by gum she ’ad nowt on’ Pratt.

The Queen released the first nuclear power into the national grid. An increase in prescription charges to 1s. per item was criticized by the British Medical Association. President Eisenhower suffered a bloodshot eye when two pieces of confetti got into it during a ticker tape election rally. Henry spent the weekend writing letters to Anna and tearing them up.

Hazel Carstairs had taken the children to their granny’s for the weekend. Henry kept his wireless on very loud, to protect him from the sounds of satisfactions that he would never know. Anne Shelton kept telling him to lay down his arms. Frankie Laine had a woman to love. Henry didn’t. Doris Day informed him that whatever would be, would be. Stupid tautologous female. Bill Haley rocked complacently through the rye. Selfish bastard. The Ying Tong Song drove him mad. ‘When Mexico gave up the Rumba,’ sang Mitchell Torok. ‘When Henry Pratt gave up women,’ said Henry grimly.

At last he’d completed a letter that didn’t make him cringe with embarrassment.

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