Creeping Figs

[Jasper Fidget]

Oh I get it: sentences that start out in Kansas but get weird.  Here's
the opening of Barthelme's "The Balloon":

"The balloon, beginning at a point on Fourteenth Street, the exact
location of which I cannot reveal, expanded northward all night, while
people were sleeping, until it reached the Park."

Jasper Meatpuppet
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_sock_puppet#Meatpuppet

On Sat, 2006-09-16 at 12:46 -0700, pynchonoid wrote:
> 
> "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks
> were striking thirteen."
> 
> All clarity, until that "thirteen" - how have the
> times changed?
>