Word: sparrows
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They made an admirable parade. Merilee at the head absolutely squared away in a vast white huipil, her eye on the sparrow and her feet skating her along somewhere down there under the billowing skirts of her gown. Girl, currently in heat, followed Merilee loyally. Alfred followed Girl, nose to her tail. If they paused or even slowed he would climb up her backside and begin pumping away, though his business could never reach hers. Girl snarled or gave him hot tired looks as if to say "too hot for love" or "men! for God's sake!" Puff puff...
...Plas Penrhyn, his comfortable country house in northern Wales, he worked until the very end-a sparrow of a man, 97 years old and still trying to straighten out the world. A statement went off to Cairo on the Middle East crisis; letters and papers were prepared on Viet Nam and the plight of political prisoners. Then, after a whisky, he retired with a touch of flu to his bedroom overlooking Tremadoc Bay. Not long afterward, the long, passionate life of Bertrand Russell came...
...underground explosion of fame. Cosmos won the $20,000 International Prize for Literature. It is an achingly attenuated suspense story -except that it turns out that there is no object to the chase, no rich cache of contraband drugs, no key diplomatic documents and no blondes. Just a hanged sparrow, a hanged cat, a mysterious bit of wood suspended in a shed and, finally, a hanged man whose death is as meaningless...
...discoverer of these pitiful carcasses is Witold, a dour, perfervid student who, with an equally jittery friend, has decided to board in the country while studying for exams. They tramp along a road in stifling heat until they encounter the hanged sparrow. As if it were a signal, they check into the next house with a guest sign. There are no other guests, only a retired bank manager named Leo Wojtys, his wife, his daughter and her new husband and, for that obligatory grace note, a deformed servant...
...Potter took the podium and acknowledged the introduction with: "Thank you, Professor, but I'm terribly sorry that you didn't get the point of the sparrow joke." Of course...