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Adventures with an unreliable narrator.
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Jun 27 04: that's the way ter do it!
We’re in England, Land of the Subtly Different Computer Keyboards. Crashed the Magdalen College Garden Party yesterday. It rained, so we stayed indoors mostly—we got to watch our host (the College Archivist) steer the kiddies away from the oldest and most fragile of the displays, for instance. Over and over.
We also saw a real Punch and Judy show. I’d never seen one live—the closest I’d gotten up until this point being Riddley Walker and Mr. Punch. I kind of had the impression that we were seeing a rather low-rent version of the real deal, though. The Professor wasn’t using a swazzle, for one thing; and the Alligator looked more like Kermit the Frog’s vicious cousin. Along the course of the play (the usual formula: Mr. Punch encounters, and kills, his baby, his wife, a policeman, a hangman, an alligator, the devil) Mr. Punch met (and killed) a Surprise Guest Star who was distinctly out-of-canon: Osama bin Laden. Very very odd.
Paul’s at his seminar and I may not see him again until Tuesday morning. The rest of us are having our post-nature-walk tea and listening to music. Quite civilized, really.
I think I’ll have another cookie now.