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PG finally finished Skinny Legs and All. Part one of the chamblee54 book report was published July 7, when PG read page 207 at 2:07 pm. Part two followed 11 days later.
It is now October 1. It took PG this long to read the remaining 272 pages. Reading while you are warming up the vehicle only goes so far. Slack is real. Slack is important, even when it’s impolite to say slack lives matter. Slack death is going too far.
SLAA winds up in Jerusalem. Boomer Petway built a statue of a multi-phorodite donkey. The heavy metal hulk drew both hipster praise, and righteous indignation. Ellen Cherry Charles is living with Boomer, having overcome divorce to go back to her man.
The last action of SLAA takes place in a Jerusalem garden. A recently fucked Ellen Cherry is eating breakfast, when Boomer bounters in. He found a spoon resting near the non-binary donkey. It looks “exactly like the one we lost in the cave that day.” It probably is that silver spoon.
Tom Robbins writes fantasy tales, set in modern america. SLAA takes the concept a bit further. A dessert spoon, a purple sock, and a can o’ beans are left behind in a cave, after a conch shell hears a Petway scream jezebel in a moment of passion. After the Petways go to New York, the spoon follows, along with the other objects. The reader is not exactly sure how this happens, but it does. The spoon winds up in a New York apartment, where it finds a painting Ellen Cherry made of it. Somehow, the spoon goes out a window, and lands on the head of a detective. After a few more plot twists, the spoon winds up in Jerusalem. This is all in the book. If you read it, you might be able to keep up with it.
The action in SLAA culminates on super bowl sunday. In the story, a New York team … the Jets/Giants binary is left to the imagination … wins the game. When PG was reading SLAA for the first time, in wintertime 1991, the New York Giants won the Super Bowl. Meanwhile, a few hundred thousand American troops were in Saudi Arabia, anticipating the start of a mid-east war. This war had something to do with Jerusalem, among other things. Did Tom Robbins anticipate a smidgen of synchronicity? Pictures today are from The Library of Congress.