Big Green Balloon w/Z

Craig Duckett craigd at control-z.com
Sun Feb 20 18:16:22 CST 2000


> Come on, if you came home after a night out at a club with a
> helium balloon tied to your head, wouldn't you write ZZZZZZZ on
> it and go to sleep?
>
> Someone remind me which onel this is from - one of the Vs I
> think, V or Vineland.  Made me ROFL when I first read it.
>
>
> Seb Thirlway
> seb at thirlway.demon.co.uk

This is our old friend Fergus Mixolydian again in V. (Bantam, 1964,
paperback edition) on p. 56:
"...He would tie the balloon by a string to the post of the bed whenever he
planned to sleep, this being the only way for visitors to tell which side of
consciousness Fergus was on."

Never to renounce Vheissu,

Craig Duckett
Seattle, WA




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