2007-03-19

Ah, yes;

GOKSEONG ELEMENTARY SCHOOL곡성 중앙 초등학교
SIXTH GRADE READING: What comes next?

1. It went down like clockwork yesterday at the defunct Confucian school on the outskirts of town. Some cuckoo had written up a large number of near-unintelligible signs, showing off a third-grader's command of brush and ink. One read "the Gecko game", another "build a house". Hung from bare Korean pines, they floated auspiciously in the afternoon wind.
Was it:

a) an incipient shootout at the Kyeol-hon corral,

b) a failed insurance fraud scheme,

c) the setup for a marriage proposal,

d) the sixth annual squid worship administrative convention

2. He brought her, eyes closed, through the forest, snapping twigs and whatnot. Building on a long-standing game of one-of-us-blind walks, she didn't complain. When she found herself confronted with the scene and the man, she:

a) waited patiently,

b) sliced off a bit of his right ear with a concealed butterfly knife,

c) recited the fourth surya of the Qur'an backwards in an obscure Malaysian dialect while simultaneously raising the man, by his collar, into the air

3. Time receded into the trees while he laid his intentions bare. When all was said, she (having already surveyed the scene) surveyed the man, and confidently answered:

a) "Sixteen of them."

b) "If you do that again, you know you'll need surgery."

c) "On the condition that I never shave my legs again."

d) "Yes."

So from the preceding, which of the following can be concluded?

a) The upcoming French presidential election will occur with each likely candidate sequestered in individual state-of-the-art mini space stations.

b) Kip Jones and Noelle Myers are in fact engaged, and will return to the United States this summer to make a big deal about it.

c) Noah's ark has been found not in Turkey, but in New Jersey, where it has escaped detection for millenia by cleverly masquerading as a train-car diner.

(Answers: C,A,D,C)

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

I should know by now (reading Murakami, just finished Wild Sheep Chase after not reading anything pf his for a long time) that concidences are a puzzle best left alone. But I thought of you and then find this wonderfull news. I shouldn't be surprized. Congrats are in order! drop an e-mail my way sometime... devdoggy yahoo com

devin

Kip Jones said...

Thanks, Devin, and I will.