Bonny Baby Competition
Last week the Sentinel Bonny Baby Competition was held at Prince’s Building. And late last night the body of a dead male baby was found, neatly wrapped in a brown paper parcel, on the rubbish dump at Cocorite.
I have seen the baby and I am in a position to say that it did not win a prize in our Bonny Baby Competition.
Experts are not yet sure whether the baby was specially taken to the rubbish dump, or simply put out with the rubbish in the usual way.
Hezekiah James, 43, unemployed, who discovered the dead baby, told me . . .
“Good, good,” Mr. Burnett said. “But heavy. Heavy. Why not ‘I am able’ instead of ‘I am in a position’?”
“I got that from the Daily Express.”
“All right. Let it pass. But promise me that for a whole week you won’t be in a position to do or say anything. It’s going to be hard. But try. What sort of baby?”
“Sort?”
“Black, white, green?”
“White. Blueish when I saw it, really. I thought, though, that we didn’t mention race, except for Chinese.”
“Listen to the man. If I ran across a black baby on the rubbish dump at Banbury, do you think I would just say a baby?”
And the headlines the next day read:
WHITE BABY FOUND ON RUBBISH DUMP
In Brown Paper Parcel
Did Not Win Bonny Baby Competition
-V.S. Naipaul - A House For Mr. Biswas
minx says:
you feckin asshole
November 17th, 2007 at 03:30 am
Kunal Goel says:
lol
April 25th, 2008 at 08:27 pm