Posted by Ed Kiser on September 22, 2002 at 00:52:33 from 64.12.96.103 user Kisered.
In Reply to: Re: Jargon posted by Harry Miller on September 22, 2002 at -1:23:03:
From SWALLOWDALE:
There would likely be some wrestling, and when Roger asked
what that was, Young Billy said it was high time he was taken to
see some. And then he told of how long ago he was taken, when
no bigger than Roger, to see his old dad wrestle for a belt with a
bit of silver buckle on it, and then of how the time came when
he was wrestling in that place himself. And with that his back
straightened and he swung his old arms and rubbed his old hands
and clapped them together and rambled away with talk that
Roger could not understand at all, about half-Nelsons and cross-
buttocks and fair throws and lost handgrips. But Roger did not
say that he did not understand. He just listened and the words went
over his head like great poetry, only leaving him the feeling that
the old man who was talking was very much stirred up by some-
thing or other that had happened a very long time ago.