Take this passage, where Soup is convincing Rob to steal a prize pumpkin from a neighbor's patch:
I looked where he pointed, and sure enough, there was the biggest old pumpkin in the whole State of Vermont. I wanted to say something, but the words that came to mind just weren't big enough or orange enough to fit the size.
"That's some vegetable." said Soup.
"You know Soup...if God were to carve a jack-o-lantern, that there is the one pumpkin he'd pick."Soup uses his influence to talk Rob into loading that jumbo pumpkin into a wheelbarrow, with the ultimate goal of arriving with it at the church Halloween party looking like a couple of heroes. Unfortunately the church is at the bottom of a very steep hill, and you can probably guess that even though everything doesn't go to plan, they still end up making one memorable entrance.
Oh, Soup...the Zack Morris of the 1930s!!
2 comments:
Soup! My boy! I loved those books. But didn't he, like, die from a bee sting or something equally fucked up?
naw. you thinking of MacCauly Clukin from "My Girl"? or the kid in Where the Red Fern Grows who gets axed.
love me some Robert Newton Peck :)
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