By Spike Milligan
Britain's looniest warfare hero completes the 3rd quantity of the Milligan memoirs. The 19th battery forge into Tunis, cocksure and carefree. They climb on aqueduct with out trousers on (the battery that's; the aqueduct was once very well-dressed). gunners try and dance with ladies and an outdated French matron...up there in Valhalla, Monty's guffawing healthy to burst.
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Dah," insists the boy, shaking him. " Silence, immobility on Sen. Gore's part. " Silence. Baby Gene regards his grand/ather with interest, obseroes naively. "Why do you keep your eyes closed? " Sen. Gore, amused, opens his blind eyes, begins sententiously: "Once upon a time . " Dab was a wonderful storyteller; he also made me pay back in full when I was six by getting me to read to him, which I did by the hour for several years. Thomas Pryor Gore. He is seated in his heavy wood Mission rocking chair, now in my bedroom at Ravello.
The Desire and the Succesiful Pursuit of the Whole • 3 3 We met awkwardly in the ballroom. We wore "tuxedos"; girls wore long dresses. An orchestra played such novelties as "The Lambeth Walk" and "The Big Apple:• Also slow fox-trots. nd appears, demanding, if not equal, fair time. I had brought Rosalind to the dance. She was tall and dark and exuberant. We had known each other all our lives. We had been "a couple'~ for several years. We were used to each other in a lowkey, comfortable way. Then the war came and everything changed.
Concentrate your attention, sir, solely upon the ring. " was far in the future that evening when I told Jimmie that I was going to marry Rosalind after I graduated from Exeter. "You're crazy," he said. We went downstairs to the men's room with its tall marble urinals and large cubicles. I wondered what, if anything, he felt After all, men are not boys. Fortunately, our bodies still fitted perfectly together, as we promptly discovered inside one of the· cubicles, standing up, belly to belly, talking of girls and marriage and coming simultaneously.