Tuesday 12 April 2011

...of insults

They did not fail, when they met him, to make a certain gesture which consists of placing the left hand at the elbow of the bent right arm, and shaking the right clenched fist. Or again, as he walked by, they mouthed the obscene letter Z of the silent alphabet of insult used by the people of Nice, the Monegasques and the people from La Turbie and Menton.

[I: The Sodomites Minion from Three Stories of Divine Punishment, Apollinaire, G.]

- submitted by Pearce, M A.

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