Evan: "Where are the Pacellis?"
Eric: "They still live in New Hampshire."
Evan: "What would they say if they saw me now?"
Eric: "They'd say, 'Oh my gosh! Evan! I can't believe how big you are! The last time I saw you, you were just a baby! You're so big! And so handsome! Look how handsome you are!' That's how the Pacellis are. Very warm, very kind people."
Evan: "What would their kids say if they saw me now?"
Eric: "They'd probably say the same thing."
(pause)
Evan: "Act out what their kids would say."
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Reading this wonderful adventure of a blog, I'm often put in mind of the following passage from a great book -- and Evan's request to "act out" the Pacelli children's response esp. brought it to mind:
"As our brand-new adventurer journeyed along, he talked to himself, saying: 'Who can doubt that in ages to come when the authentic story of my famous deeds comes to light, the sage who writes of them will say, when he comes to tell of my first expedition so early in the morning: "Scarce had the ruddy Apollo spread the golden threads of his lovely hair over the broad and spacious face of the earth, and scarcely had the forked tongues of the little painted birds greeted with mellifluous harmony the coming of the rosy Aurora who, leaving the soft bed of her jealous husband, showed herself at the doors and balconies of the Manchegan horizon, when the famous knight, Don Quixote de la Mancha, quitting the slothful down, mounted his famous steed Rocinante and began to journey across the ancient and celebrated plain of Montiel"?'" (Cervantes' Don Quixote, trans. by J.M. Cohen, Penguin Editions, Baltimore, 1950, 1962)
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