Wednesday, July 16, 2008
He got me pegged
Do you know George, our resident Auld Fella? Ah, ya do. He who spends all his days on a sofa in the library reading Chekhov and an 800-page Nureyev biography, and occasionally delights us all with his opinions on such varied topics as the stupidity of the government, the stupidity of the young, and the stupidity of the Irish. He who we all refer to as 'fecking George' as he sends us off to find a T S Eliot authored account of Oscar Wilde's time in the Far East which, patently, does not exist. Today, prompted by my unasked retrieval of his cane from where he left it in the loo, he chuckled and threw his head back in a gesture that really made me fear for his stability: 'My deaaaaarr!' He croaked. 'For someone who works at such a mundane job, you really do seem to have a glow of innocence about you!'
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3 comments:
I have often wondered what I will do in my old age. Now I know.
Oh goody! I'll bags you a seat on the sofas!
good old george, i like that i had only seen him and not heard him for so long because i'm another library weirdo, hiding down by the z section of fiction for so long!
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