I'm not sure I was completely clear in my first post. Basically, there are only two living Garys in the world. Just two. That's all.
― Surprise, It's My Butt (Old Lunch), Saturday, 14 June 2014 19:51 (ten years ago) link
The Hunt for a Newborn Gary
Once babies were born as Garys
and no one doubted what they were, and they were
true men, these babies,
with dangle, and the very name
Gary it had the sound of exposing itself to you. Each
Gary made a fine crowd noise, each Gary was a Crowd
to cheer his death-defying loop-de-loops, and each Gary
went wild when he did not die, one Gary after another
in a loud unbroken line. But was somewhere born a baby
named Gary, sometime in the last 15 years? Not one,
says the Living Record. Not at two o'clock in the morning,
not at three o'clock in the afternoon, and Gary sounds to us
now the way ORVILLE must have sounded in 1950: a man
in the brand-new days of the car saying Haw and Gee
to his Ford, he can't help it, so recent did the horseflank
twitch beneath the fly. What Garys are still alive are gray,
they ask to hold our newborns and the rest of the family
looks on afraid. If the infants are dropped and broken
they will make a sick overripe sound: Gary. Now just
one minute I interrupt, my father had that name,
I don't believe a word of this, except for the honest
word Gary. When he had it the name was in fullest flower
and perfectly a name of the now, and he shot wiggling
seconds into my mom and one of them plumped and grew
bigheaded, and he named me he couldn't help it Orange,
and my life was a film as long as my life of my name growing
mold in real time. I was part of a picnic basket, and packed
for a family trip, for a family trip to where, the past, and Gary
was a canyon there, and the babies of the past tumbled into him
happily, and the sunset into him was famous, and up and down
his sides grew the freshest wild four o'clocks.
-- Patricia Lockwood
five years pass...
Also, they mention "Gareths and Garths" but they totally spaced on Garrett, which is declining from its mid-90s peak over here, but still pretty popular.
― ☮ (peace, man), Tuesday, 27 August 2019 15:55 (five years ago) link
