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Rollo did not want to. Tunn and Dip were all for it. Fan was for it as well.
- I’m not the sort to even take a shirt off at the beach.
- We are not the sorts to care, they said to Rollo.
- I have definite opinions about witnessing the male nudity of others, and definite opinions about displaying my own male nudity.
- What other opinions could you describe for us? Tunn asked
- I believe that the good Lord gave us shame for a reason, and look what happened to Ham.
- Look what happened to Adam and Eve, naked and sinless. But, we’ll be here in the dark, naked and sunless, Dip said and took off a shoe.
- Think, Fan said as he draped bikini briefs across a forearm like a waiter. Think about how you might feel running through a field shoeless and also cloth-less. Not even the breech-clout of the Indian to keep the freshness of the good honest air from you. We will know this tonight. You will know nothing about this. We will be like balloons filled with helium and you will be like a balloon filled with a child’s peanut butter breath. I would be surprised if our social interactions continued as smoothly as they have thus far. You really should do this.
- I won’t. In fact I will put on this life jacket emblazoned with Mallard ducks so as to be further clothed and protected from The Elements around me. Because The Elements are not to be trusted. They require mediation.
- Are you deformed beneath your protective outer shell? Tunn asked and stood with foot skin to grass.
- I am not. I am lilied.
- If you’re mutilated, I excuse you from service. But no stones, no Urim or Thummim, for you, said Dip from an obscene crouch.
- Lilies, said Rollo.
- You, Fan said as he hung his paisley briefs on a moss-covered branch. You are not excused. You must run. You must run in the way that Ernest Hemingway might have run naked to water. He would have called the activity good, and evoked the simplicity of un-harried actions of living in his gait. On this we will judge you, on nakedness of soul.
They ran through the field, not entirely missing patches of cow manure. When they reached the water, where the muddy bottom would push through toes with great force and give you an unshakeable impression of the color green, The Elements rose up in greeting. They are not to be trusted.
Loudon Wainwright III - “The Swimming Song” mp3
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So good man! I love it!