Orotundo Belundromora. Just a guess.
Seems like a stretch though.
Yesterday it’s Sunday. Воскресенье. Once
I wanted to help this guy who I think was maybe Czech on the train in
Germany who had no German to speak of not that I did really but he had none
anyway he went to bed and the conductor came in and wanted to know when the guy
wanted to get up to be ready for his arrival you know his particular station.
Well there was this back and forth and forth and back and Fortinbras came and
found Hamlet dead and the dialogue went on without a single comprehensionary
pearl.
So, I tried to think of the Russian word
for “wake up” because these guys couldn’t even get THAT far, plus I had my
Russian numbers still in my head and figured maybe a guy who’s Czech could
maybe understand an American speaking a piss few words in Russian (it had been
a couple years since I had had any Russian at all, I’m not James Bond or
anything), but like I say I had the numbers, and a bit of the clockspeak. The
best I could think of though for “waking up” was Воскресенье, which
technically means resurrection, although no one really knows how it’s done or
any of the logarithms and roots or food groups that go with it, according to Garp.
So. I chickened out. I let the guy just
wave the conductor away and then go back to sleep. And I left the compartment
before he did, so I hope that he got where he wanted to be, like in somebody-friendly’s
pants. So what’s the point? The point is thank you try
to help, bless you. Do be doers of the word do. Because even God can’t help a
guy from the upper bunk with a kazoo band if he doesn’t know how to depurple
the beety beety borscht of time, said Kafka, who reads okay. And God goes away.
Though again, say you’re the guy
confused and sleepy. When you do wake up having overslept your destination, in
a crush of fear and frustration, you just must rise and make do. There might still
be time God willing and the creek don’t too (my choice one) to jump with one
luggage and wait. Or too, walk with two luggage and date.
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