Reading Ulysses in Montana #33

Fate was all the rage in the age of horseshoes and hand maidens flying not close enough to the sum of all fears.

Ginger said I am not Georgette, though as for that the turnips there had worn them really about the same, not alike at all in bearing or fortune. And I am not George, as they say, as it were when we weren’t kings or minor deities. Needles needle the gesundheit out of the last remaining shoe on the turnstile, while Ginger studied the lines of George’s face and Georgette flicked the fly off my eyelid with a gentle swat of her non-linear hand–along with the skillet of cast iron, not seasoned properly–although she would say the same about me, but that’s the kind of matter she could take up with herself.

The rages of horseshoes showed Ginger the fate of all ages where the fear of flying handmaidens manifest themselves as cold black-iron skillets.


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13 thoughts on “Reading Ulysses in Montana #33

  1. Elizabeth January 5, 2025 / 6:33 am

    Feeds my hunger for word riffs this morning.

      • Elizabeth January 5, 2025 / 9:06 am

        See what you made me do? Now I’m riffing on cleaning the refrigerator!

      • Rick Mallery January 5, 2025 / 11:24 am

        That’s better than actually cleaning the refrigerator!

      • Elizabeth January 5, 2025 / 11:33 am

        Well, um, it’s actually a cheap trick to get me to ACTUALLY clean the refrigerator . . .

      • Matthew Laney January 6, 2025 / 7:23 am

        Feeling the Burns

      • Rick Mallery January 6, 2025 / 8:16 am

        George, where were you? I was looking all over for you. I even called down to the butchers. G: Why would I be at the butchers? G: That’s what I would have asked you if I’d found you there.

  2. SURENDRA KUMAR DASH January 5, 2025 / 9:26 pm

    Nature in it’s true set up is more enchanting than our imagination.

  3. Habib Rana January 9, 2025 / 10:05 pm

    Nature is our real mother

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