beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies

[gary webb]

In 1935 he had his first episode outside of any condition of known sleep-it
was during his Kipling Period, beastly Fuzzy-Wuzzies far as eye could see,
dracunculiasis and Oriental sore rampant among the troops, no beer for a
month, wireless being jammed by other powers who would be masters of these
horrid blacks, God knows why, and all folklore broken down, No Cary Grant
larking in and out slipping elephant medicine in punchbowls out here...


...Sandy MacPherson playing on his organ "The Changing of the Guard," what
should develop for Pirate here but a sumptuous Oriental episode: vaulting
lazily and well over the fence and sneaking in to town, to the Forbidden
Quarter. There to stumble into an orgy held by a Messiah no one has quite
recognized yet..."

The fantasy Pirate is inhabiting is one HA Loaf's, and it as at this point
that the Them of the novel become aware of his talent...
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