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Mar. 7th, 2004

In The Alps

Mar. 7th, 2004 10:36 am
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Today I wore white.

The professor collected me in his Daimler and we drove deep into the Bernese Oberland. It was a valley he knew. The long grass was full of little flowers, white and red and blue. The professor is very spry for his age. I tell him he looks like Teddy Roosevelt.

We met a girl who was driving cows down from the high pastures. She was a fine specimen of the race, with white hair in braids and bright blue eyes. "I would like to stretch her on the rack," said the professor, "and pull out all those perfect little teeth with pliers."

Something black flew down the length of the valley, very high up. I think it was a zeppelin. The professor lifted my hand and sniffed at my wrist. "You smell of rust," he said.
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Mr Shuan has hurt the boy. This is certainly a hell ship. I try to compose a chantey, but the boy's whimpering distracts me and I can manage no more than this chorus- Weigh-heigh, Polly's my girl.

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