h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Entry: Silver Apple - A52328847
Author: dmitrigheorgheni - U1590784

When you read this, please remember where I come from...

And what happens when you ask hillbillies to tell stories.



My count makes it 1,485 words. (Thanks for the word limit: Longer would not have been better.)

Ms GB

(will read it tomorrow)

This is an intriguing yarn - I think our narrator had drunk too many whiskies!

I think you could have done better. It doesn't have the psychological subtlety of, say, 'Guilty', or the clever plays on time and place of your science fiction.

But then, I'm miffed at not being able to identify the Yeats. I'll leave that to the cleverer folk round here.

This is intriguing (and I don't mean the Yeats, I can't be bothered to try to find out which poem you are referring to).

Thanks for the reading, MVP - I'm sure the Yeats will come to you (and surprised at having stumped our most knowledgeable poetry person). It might, er, add a bit to the picture.

I'm disappointed that you don't find psychological subtlety here...

I was obviously going for depth psychology.

Were you thinking of 'The Song of Wandering Aengus', with its lines:

"Though I am old with wandering
Through hollow lands and hilly lands,
I will find out where she has gone,
And kiss her lips and take her hands;
And walk among long dappled grass,
And pluck till time and times are done
The silver apples of the mooon,
The golden apples of the sun."

Yes. Got it in one.

Yeats' trout and my mermaid have a bit in common.

What a lovely story

Bonus points from me for mentioning a) Sheffield; b) John Cleese; and c) bilingual punk-folk (the mind boggles...)

The mind boggled back then......rude words in Greek...

Do you mean that the bilingual punk folk band was real?

Your man sounds as though he's full of Blarney

You've really captured that character

The bilingual folk.rock punk was a backyard-and-beach experiment, with guitar and bouzouki.

Thanks, Tib. So my alter ego is an unreliable narrator? Sounds about right...