Our strange minds (Berry)
January 17th, 2007 | Published in Sexuality, Life, Quotes, Humor and Satire
At the other end of the row [on the airplane], divided by an empty seat from the man with the newspaper, a woman in a tailored suit is sitting with a legal pad on her lap…. Her taste and bearing are splendid. She is impeccable.
And Andy would like to give her a little peck on her ear. His mind is calling out to her: “Hello, my Tinkerbelle, my winsome, weensy crocodile. Come out! Come out! I know you’re in there somewhere.”
He says to his mind, “Shut up, you dumb bastard!”
–Wendell Berry, Remembering in Three Short Novels (2003), p. 199-200