Sentence
The Fivehundredandnineteenth
Now,
Little Levy Balquhidder really wanted to know what was going on, but
knew that this desire required discipline, dexterity and
determination, or his name wasn't df3n3hho (well, of course it wasn't
really that, which is just a
kind of artist's impression of a name which is never spoken or heard
and is only capable of being expressed emotionally) and it would be
necessary to remember the present limitations of his body and –
supposedly – mind; the fact that he was capable of fluent speech in
19 living languages and several dead ones, and could read a further
24 comfortably,
had to remain what it was, a secret
which he would never divulge even on pain of death, it was verboten;
he was as yet unable to walk – this was always for the spirit the
worst limitation of human
babyhood, the inability
to walk from point A to point B and to
know that several more months
would elapse before he could,
did rather give rise to a
degree of frustration and
malcontentment within his breast
– but he had already
demonstrated a great ability to roll across the floor, much to the
delight of his Mummy
and Daddy, Rilla and Rary,
who were secretly glad that he wasn't yet able to reach much
more than 10
or 12
inches, and so they hadn't yet had to make the house above that
height child-proof – but. luckily for Levy, who,
despite the overwhelmingly good nature of his spirit, that had over
the generations occasionally indulged in nefarious activities the
likes of which, at other times and places it roundly and soundly
condemned as much as the next man or woman (especially when he sat in
judgement upon the Bench and had occasion to punish those who had
grievously wronged their
fellow citizens) for though loathe to admit
it this spirit could honestly be described as 'human' by
being possessed of those
qualities and foibles which mark us all as such. he
was able to reach the top of the coffee table, where he knew the
local paper lay, after his Daddy had put it down, and so he soon had
scanned it for any references to Professor Sir Clement Dane and,
there, on page five, a photograph of the group of Archaeologists
assembled at the mouth of the Cavern, with Roxy Davidova kitted out
for the first descent and two
Professor Danes, one on each end of the line, dressed slightly
different from each other, so it wasn't an example of the old School
or College photographs when a panoramic camera was slowly sweeping
across the assembly and one intrepid boy or girl (and, yes, the
spirit had done that on several occasions, in different identities)
would dash behind the screen of bodies from one end to the other and
lo! like identical twins who were not on the roll, which is rather a
circumbendibusty way
of saying that in this particular case, so far as Little Levy was
able to deduce from the photograph, there were indeed, and
he checked the date,
yesterday's paper, so there are
indeed, two Professor
Sir Clement
Danes extant in Melrose!
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