Strange Conversations: Part Three Hundred and Thirty-Six
Posted 11 December 2010 in Strange Conversations by Catriona
ME: That mad butterfly’s back again! It’s harassing me! It’s been harassing me for weeks!
NICK: They don’t live that long, surely?
ME: No, they live for a day, or something like that. Maybe it’s not just one butterfly. Maybe it’s like …
NICK: Don’t say it.
ME: Don’t say what?
NICK: I don’t know, but it’s bound to be something a bit mad.
ME: I was going to say that maybe it’s like the McCoys and the Hatfields, only I’m all the Hatfields, because I live so much longer than a butterfly, and the butterfly is a succession of McCoys.
NICK: Okay, that’s really not what I was expecting.
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