Married with Superpowers

[Ian (Hank Kimble) Scuffling]

My father and his best friend used to tell that story, minus the Haiti
dream, i.e. "one day, he took a screwdriver..."  I wonder about the
origins.  So many American story/myths seem to come from WWII
malarkey.
-- 
AsB4,

Henry

On Dec 25, 2007 6:37 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> http://i216.photobucket.com/albums/cc8/DoopPhotobucket2/whatthe/marriedwithsuperpowers/pt1/married3.jpg
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> Cf. ...
>
> "Somehow it was all tied up with a story he'd heard once, about a boy
> born with a golden screw where his navel should have been. For twenty
> years he consults doctors and specialists all over the world, trying
> to get rid of this screw, and having no success. Finally, in Haiti, he
> runs into a voodoo doctor who gives him a foul-smelling potion. He
> drinks it, goes to sleep and has a dream. In this dream he finds
> himself on a street, lit by green lamps. Following the witch-man's
> instructions, he takes two rights and a left from his point of origin,
> finds a tree growing by the seventh street light, hung all over with
> colored balloons. On the fourth limb from the top there is a red
> balloon; he breaks it and inside is a screwdriver with a yellow
> plastic handle. With the screwdriver he removes the screw from his
> stomach, and as soon as this happens he wakes from the dream. It is
> morning. He looks down toward his navel, the screw is gone. That
> twenty years' curse is lifted at last. Delirious with joy, he leaps up
> out of bed, and his ass falls off." (V., Ch. 1, p. 34)
>
> http://imagine.blogintro.com/396/a-boy-with-a-golden-screw
>