A Traveler's Generic Phrase Book and Novel

by Shirley B. Trew

Friday, August 3, 2012


POST #40—THE RUINS

He's nodding and pointing down the path. I guess eight hundred thousand bongoes is a lot.
There's another little man ahead.
Show him the rock so we don't have to buy another one.
How about if we sell it to him for a million bongoes?

Is this The Ruins?
No, there aren't enough tourists here.
Can we just walk anywhere?
Are you sure this is The Ruins?
Are we lost?

There's a man bowing to us and gesturing.
I think he's saying he'll show us some special ruins.
Should we follow him?

Ask him where we are on the map.
He says we're way over here. But he also says The Ruins are very close.
How much will we have to pay him?
Ten thousand something.
Ten thousand? That's nothing.

No, ten thousand something-something. I think he means ten thousand mega-bongoes.
That's too much. Tell him we'll just find it on our own.
Just walk away. He'll give up eventually.

Where is it?
It's over there.
It's to the left/right.
It's over there where all those statues are.
It's over there by that pile of rubble.

You see that big fountain with the tire in it? It's not that way, it's the other way.
It's just over the hill.

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