Word: vag
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Vag was not himself that day he took Billy, his younger brother, to see the circus at the Boston Garden. The place affected him strangely: the smells of sawdust and animal-flesh, grease paint and rope, all got under his skin. The pushing mob didn't satisfy his desire for companionship, and of course, neither did Billy. It was spring, and his fancies had turned to where they usually did at that time of year. As he handed the tickets to the scarlet-clad Cossack at the door, he was complaining to himself, "This is no job for a college...
Suddenly he lurched into a well-lighted room just as someone announced, "His Majesty, Louis XVII of France!" But Vag was not to be disconcerted by idle flattery. There was work to be done! "Where's the fire?" he asked breathlessly...
...Vag hesitated, a little taken aback. The place where he found himself was, to say the least, surrealistic. In front of him was the crude semblance of an early nineteenth century drawing room with men and women strewn about in various histrionic positions. A little man with flowing red hair was wandering about among them, muttering to himself and glaring at the Vag. Yet when he looked behind him, the Vag knew indubitably that he was at the bottom of a swimming pool, sans water, and above him were tier upon tier of weird looking people, perched on diving boards...
...thought there was a fire!" Vag stammered...
...disconsolate Vag was ushered out, someone in the nineteenth century drawing room said, "She had a beautiful neck, like a swan...