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It Still Sounded Like Innocent Fun
>It sounded like innocent fun... and i wish i had a t-shirt with the slogan "yeah, i should have known better". it'd save me saying it over and over - i could just point to it and sigh. i must have some kind of self-destructive urge going. after all, it was me who waved that copy of "Gravity's Rainbow" in her face all those years. it was me who gave her the impression that she would be instantly cool if she read it. and it was me who didn't stop her when she said she was going to turn her back-yard into a miniature banana plantation, "just like Pirate Prentice's". unfortunately, the bananas just didn't take. even more unfortunately, the half-dozen-or-so varieties of OTHER weird plants DID. Belladonna, Jimson Weed (how the hell she got THAT to grow in Melbourne is beyond me), any seeds she could come by - she tossed them into the compost heap and stood back. i did manage to talk her out of building an Orgone Accumulator around them. eventually, most of them died out after three or four generations, each successive plant becoming more thin and weedy due to insufficient pollination. one of them didn't. we couldn't tell what it was - the leaves seemed to change each week, and i'm sure i caught it out growing completely different leaves near the top as compared to the ones near the bottom. the ones that she said smelled "nice and minty". the ones that she pulled off, ground up and made tea out of. of course, she got me to drink it first. nikolai |
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