Normal for Boys

normal for boys

when you are eleven, or perhaps twelve, it might even have been thirteen one can never quite recall with exactness for some reason I was reading dickens at four so we shall have to assume I had gone through the ball ache and into the sheet stiffening world

when you are of an age and a relative gives you a microscope it is a little unfair of them to be shocked - when combining the pleasures — you invite them to see the miracle of a fresh slide enhanced by a squeezed drop of ink from a — aptly named — felt pen

I vaguely recall that gentleman naturalists upon seeing sperm for the first time used it as further proof of moral degeneracy that the gamekeepers and footmen - from whom they extracted - were themselves extracted from serpents or had a diet with excess of eel

and I taste this somewhat when overcome with my normalcy - and with equipment to prove it -

my mother is not impressed though my aunt shows interest