Dennis: “Oh but if I went ’round sayin’ I was Emperor, just because some moistened bint lobbed a scimitar at me, they’d put me away!” — Monty Python and the Holy Grail Transportation Security Administration by J. Hamilton 19 November: I went through Los Angeles airport security. Life required I travel to Boston. After reading […]
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The sergeant looked at us with the wisdom of the ages in his eyes, and then with the compelling voice of Saruman said we should push out our front risers as far as we could and rock gently back and forth . . . A wag later told me the purpose of the maneuver was to occupy our minds and make us relax just before we fried.
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The adults talked over my head, but I had developed the pattern of pretending to be playing while listening. It required quite an effort for me to understand, because I knew nothing of what they talked about. I could read emotion unfailingly, but their subjects required thought, a searching, and the accumulated knowledge of later years to understand. One subject late that summer was Dewey and Truman. I could tell they were deciding.
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