The Handsomest Drowned Man In The World
November, 1971
The Handsomest Drowned Man in the WorldThe first children who saw the dark and slinky bulge approaching through the sea let themselves think it was an enemy ship. Then they saw it had no flags nor masts and they thought it was a whale. But when it washed up on the beach, they removed the clumps of seaweed, the jellyfish tentacles and the remains of fish and flotsam and only then did they see that it was a drowned man. And so they made a toy of him.They had been playing with him all afternoon, bu...