First line of Against the Day?

Steven mcquaryq at comcast.net
Wed Oct 11 20:57:44 CDT 2006


	one potential berserk studying the best technique for jumping  
through a plate glass window (when to scream Geronimo? before or  
after the glass breaks?)

	Reminds one of Zoyd's opening scene...


On Oct 11, 2006, at 11:50 AM, Ya Sam wrote:

> "For it's said (and not without reason) that no sooner does a ship  
> like the Scaffold single up all lines than certain Navy wives are  
> out of their civvies and into barmaid uniform, flexing their beer- 
> carrying arms and practicing a hooker's sweet smile; even as the  
> N.O.B. band is playing Auld Lang Syne and the destroyers are  
> blowing stacks in black flakes all over the cuckolds-to-be standing  
> manly at attention, taking leave with me and a tiny grin."
>

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