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It was Saturday and there were a lot of children standing more or less
in a line in front of the ticket box.
Enoch was not very fond of children, but children always seemed to
like to look at him. The line turned
and twenty or thirty eyes began to observe him with a steady interest.
The umbrella had assumed an
ugly position, half up and half down, and the half that was up was
about to come down and spill more
water under his collar. When this happened the children laughed and
jumped up and down. Enoch
glared at them and turned his back and lowered his dark glasses. He
found himself facing a life-size fourcolor picture of a gorilla. Over the
gorilla’s head, written in red letters was “GONGA! Giant Jungle
Monarch and a Great Star! HERE IN PERSON!!!” At the level of the
gorilla’s knee, there was more that
said, “Gonga will appear in person in front of this theater at 12 A.M.
TODAY! A free pass to the first ten
brave enough to step up and shake his hand!”
Enoch was usually thinking of something else at the moment that Fate
began drawing back her leg to
kick him. When he was four years old, his father had brought him
home a tin box from the penitentiary.
It was orange and had a picture of some peanut brittle on the outside
of it and green letters that said, “A
NUTTY SURPRISE!” When Enoch had opened it, a coiled piece of
steel had sprung out at him and broken
off the ends of his two front teeth. His life was full of so many
happenings like that that it would seem he