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  There was a section of Chapter 9.2 missing from the original rough draft. Feel free to go back and read it with the first 1900 words actually there. It was supposed to be a longer chapter to make up for the lack of two posts and a delay of so long between posts. That's all I had to say…Here’s the opening scene from monty python and the holy grail to fill the other 400 words or so.

  [wind]

  [clop clop clop]

  ARTHUR: Whoa there!

  [clop clop clop]

  SOLDIER #1: Halt! Who goes there?

  ARTHUR: It is I, Arthur, son of Uther Pendragon, from the castle of Camelot. King of the Britons, defeater of the Saxons, Sovereign of all England!

  SOLDIER #1: Pull the other one!

  ARTHUR: I am, and this is my trusty servant Patsy. We have ridden the length and breadth of the land in search of knights who will join me in my court at Camelot. I must speak with your lord and master.

  SOLDIER #1: What? Ridden on a horse?

  ARTHUR: Yes!

  SOLDIER #1: You're using coconuts!

  ARTHUR: What?

  SOLDIER #1: You've got two empty halves of coconut and you're bangin' 'em together.

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  ARTHUR: So? We have ridden since the snows of winter covered this land, through the kingdom of Mercia, through--

  SOLDIER #1: Where'd you get the coconuts?

  ARTHUR: We found them.

  SOLDIER #1: Found them? In Mercia? The coconut's tropical!

  ARTHUR: What do you mean?

  SOLDIER #1: Well, this is a temperate zone.

  ARTHUR: The swallow may fly south with the sun or the house martin or the plover may seek warmer climes in winter, yet these are not strangers to our land?

  SOLDIER #1: Are you suggesting coconuts migrate?

  Not at all. They could be carried.

  SOLDIER #1: What? A swallow carrying a coconut?

  ARTHUR: It could grip it by the husk

  SOLDIER #1: It's not a question of where he grips it! It's a simple question of weight ratios! A five ounce bird could not carry a one pound coconut.

  ARTHUR: Well, it doesn't matter. Will you go and tell your master that Arthur from the Court of Camelot is here?

  SOLDIER #1: Listen. In order to maintain air-speed velocity, a swallow needs to beat its wings forty-three times every second, right?

  ARTHUR: Please!

  SOLDIER #1: Am I right?

  ARTHUR: I'm not interested!

  SOLDIER #2: It could be carried by an African swallow!

  SOLDIER #1: Oh, yeah, an African swallow maybe, but not a European swallow. That's my point.

  SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah, I agree with that.

  ARTHUR: Will you ask your master if he wants to join my court at Camelot?!

  SOLDIER #1: But then of course, uh, African swallows are non-migratory.

  SOLDIER #2: Oh, yeah.

  SOLDIER #1: So, they couldn't bring a coconut back anyway.

  [clop clop clop]

  SOLDIER #2: Wait a minute! Supposing two swallows carried it together?

  SOLDIER #1: No, they'd have to have it on a line.

  SOLDIER #2: Well, simple! They'd just use a strand of creeper!

  SOLDIER #1: What, held under the dorsal guiding feathers?

  SOLDIER #2: Well, why not?

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