Mikey Jackson
Monday 6th April 2009 8:23pm [Edited]
Worthing, West Sussex
2,808 posts
Yeah... definitely Man as opposed to Mankind.
And oh, by the way...
You can't really get more weird than my novel opener...
"Percy Pickle stuck his index finger up his right nostril and blew a raspberry with his lips and tongue."
And in context....
Percy Pickle stuck his index finger up his right nostril and blew a raspberry with his lips and tongue. What may have seemed a ludicrous act to a passing audience was in effect a habit that Percy had unfortunately been cursed with all his life. Although, oddly enough, even with it being such an atypical peculiarity, Percy was in fact blissfully unaware that he even performed such a bizarre gesture. Tough decisions would typically trigger the habit. Not all decisions, one might add. Petty decisiveness such as which store to buy his groceries from or which show to watch on TV would remain unaffected. Only a demanding dilemma would bring it on.
The demanding dilemma in question was simple. What was he going to do with the rest of his life? He had been recently made unemployed, was as close to skint as skint could be, and the creeping realisation of being irreversibly middle-aged had long-since taken a permanent foothold. The proverbial crossroads lay before him, but the signposts were missing; probably stolen! He did not know which way to turn and was unsure of which way to look. He knew not whether to shit or piss in the bucket that he identified as being life itself. In essence, he was buggered!
