tall according to his biography

"Tall According To His Biography," April 25, 2022 (#115)

title from Looking for Alaska by John Green (2005)

The Green Book (2018)

The Green Road by Anne Enright (2015)

The Green Mile by Stephen King (1996)

one line from Lick the Sugar Habit by Nancy Appleton (1985)

one line from Pale Kings and Princes by Robert B. Parker (1987)

Tall According To His Biography

If it doesn’t turn up, I’ll burn this place down! You hear me?


She thought she heard the liquid boom of a baby's heart

given permission to sleep on the screen-enclosed side porch.


Actually, it’s a bit more complicated than that. Have you

a raging blank of a human being and he knew he would

know if he was being given a good spot or a bad one?


Each finger is center key, each note plucked perfectly.

They were all turned towards their mother now. They

looked toward my office. That shadow was still lying on the

millions of trees, all dusted with snow, just like out of a

breeze, but the temperature had dropped a good fifteen degrees,

and saw the blackness of the road underneath,

a real disappointment. I didn’t notice any difference at all.


To improve the expression of the genetic blueprint,

I drove on and parked a way up the road out of sight.

From here.

From Friends, "The One Where They're Up All Night" (2001

2-11-22

10-28-21