Author: Bennett ★2017
Date: 2022-04-04 01:05
From Jonathan Lethem's Motherless Brooklyn, p. 26 where a clarinet is part of a joke - here much edited - (the punch line involves a bagpipe)
“So guy walks into a bar,” ... “With an octopus. Says to the bartender ‘I’ll bet a hundred dollars this octopus can play any instrument in the place.’ ”.....
....(the) bartender says ‘Hold on, I think I’ve got something else around here,’ pulls a clarinet out of the back room. Octopus looks the thing over a couple of times, tightens the reed.” “He’s milking it,” said Minna, again meaning us both. “Well, the octopus isn’t good exactly, but he manages to squeak out a few bars on the clarinet. He isn’t going to win any awards, but he plays the thing...
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The Clarinet BBoard
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