Hamlet with a live dad and nothing much rotting in the state of Denmark. Twenty-one years ago he lost a battle to stay forever in his mother s womb. And then he tumbled out into the river of life. It was late October when he was born. The river might have been frozen.
Pepper seems to say.
Once upon a time in the steaming jungles of the Amazon a baby was dropped into the mighty river to swim with all the piranhas. Maybe he just got it from a book. Big hairy deal. You could leap over the nanaconda s lair, you could paddle up to the source of things where the trout were rising. A long time ago the Irish kept trout in their wells because it was said to purify the water.