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Anonymous Tue Jun 1 10:35:24 2021 No.18364167 [Reply] [Original]

>mom dying of cancer or something idk lmao
>reads the bible constantly in the hospital
>I look up from the first page of Finnegans Wake that I had been perusing (this being my 4th re-reading of the ol Wake, of course), simultaneously skimming then subvocalizing and then finally fully vocalizing each passage, and I notice she is reading the KJV
>I snicker
>mother looks up, giving a weak, grotesquely skeletal smile and says "a-anon, remember when I used to read you the nativity scenes each Christmas to y-you"
>my response is the deliberate flipping of the page as my irish-tinged narration rises slightly to subtly let her know I am in no talking mood
>"th-that book y-you're reading, anon, sounds so hard. I really am p-proud of you."
>I say I wish I could say the same about you
>she is taken aback and timidly quandaries "but anon, the bible is one of the most important books in the world"
>I scoff openly as I reach for the copy of Origins: Fourteen Billion Years of Cosmic Evolution that I always turn to when Joyce no longer provides enough intellectual stimulation for me
>"actually," I say "the bible isn't essential to the western canon. the hyms to Dionysus would rank far higher in the development of western transcendental epistemological, ontic-ontologic thought."
>the bitch starts tearing up, wholly refuted, and says "a-anon" *cough cough* "I'll a-always love my b-bright young boy."
>I go over to her hospital bed and tap on the leather of her bible
>"I'm only bright because I didn't bother with this sort of hoi polloi hack pulp."
>I go out to the vending machine to get myself a soda with a few quarters I found in my mom's purse
>a qt nurse comes up to me and says she's sorry at how bad my mother's condition is. pity sex is basically a guarantee at this point
>"yyyyeah" I yawn, "but as Joyce said" I say, tapping the emergency copy of Finnegans Wake that I always have in my pocket "bababadalgharaghtakamminarronnkonnbronntonner-
ronntuonnthunntrovarrhounawnskawntoohoohoordenenthur-
nuk" (I had to pause halfway through to look up the rest but I'm pretty sure she was still impressed
>I imagine how cool it would be to pinch her ass as I walk away
>don't do it but chuckle to myself thinking how alpha it was that I thought to

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