Monday, June 19, 2006

Laurence, being Down's Syndrome, couldn't pronounce his words right - which was why I called him Laurence Lebrity. No matter how he tried he couldn't get it right, the name of his favourite programme - Celebrity Squares. I used to meet him everyday and say: 'I suppose you'll be watching it tonight, will you Laurence?' and he'd start clapping his hands and jumping up and down. Quite what he must have made of two completely strange men standing in his living room while he was watching Bob Monkhouse reading from his cue cards, and all you can say is God only knows. Nothing, I suppose. Too busy clapping his hands and going : 'Lebrity Kwares! Lebrity Kwares!'

When they start asking him the questions, most likely he thought it was his own private Celebrity Squares . And why, probably, he raced up the stairs so enthusiastically to get his rosary beads when they leaned in close and asked him, smiling : 'What religion are you?'

Which they were happy to accept as an answer, and why, after they had raped his mother, they put the beads around his neck like a garland and said : 'Clap your hands for Celebrity Squares!', which he did, as enthusiastically as ever.

I think it was the first Down's Syndrome boy to be shot in the Northern Ireland war. The first in Tyreelin, anyway.

- Breakfast on Pluto by Patrick McCabe

I'm currently reading that book and I can't wait to see the movie. Anthony was kind and awesome enough to have bought it for me.

Not only will I get to see a movie made out of that wonderful book, I'd also get to see Cillian Murphy in drag! A beautiful drag, no less.

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