Quixote is such a drama queen
and Sancho plays along with it.
They act like they’ve
never smelled
a dog fart.
The BeagleSword was Kenegdo
and the rabbit hole was Ezer.
“Doe is a skinny minnie with mouse-colored hair who
tries so hard to be no trouble to anybody and stay
out of everyone’s way and make no demands whatsoever
on anyone, and if you ask her what she’d like to eat
for lunch, or what she wants to do after lunch,
she only whispers, ‘Whatever you have left over.
Don’t fix anything special for me. A piece of bread
is more than good enough. Whatever you have extra of.
Water is fine. If you want to go someplace after lunch,
I can just sit here and look out the window. I’m happy.
It’s fine with me. Make it easy on yourself. I’m quite
content to look at an old magazine and listen to the radio.
I don’t need anybody to entertain me. You go do whatever
you like and just pretend I’m not here.’ Her visits place
a huge weight on our household. The weight of meekness.
Aunt Doe is sort of the Billy the Kid of meekness,
a professional meeker, she has out-meeked the best
of them, she can meek you to death.”
– Garrison Keillor,
Lake Wobegon Summer 1956,
p.29
p.29