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CHAPTER 10.
GARCON MONKEY.
Mischievous 12-year-old Tim gets into all sorts of trouble, he bites the hands of baby sitters that feed bitter pills, which makes his poor Inuit parents annoyed and paranoid; Tim does not know that he is in fact terminally still. He is in need of a heart transplant when a pioneering doctor approaches his family with a startling proposal. He can give him a new heart - but from a pig. Fed up with just sitting on the side of life, always watching and never doing , he has to try - to become the world’s first pig-heart boy. The goal is to have suitable donor pigs available when the team has refined its methods of preventing the recipient from rejecting the donated cells.The heart valves of pigs have been used in hundreds of thousands of heart transplants, and pig cells have shown promise in the treatment of Parkinson’s disease. Something with a thirty-three and a third rounds per minute rhythm and thermal thicket of thorns and thistles thumps and thunders threatening the three-D thoughts of Timothy the thug in tights - although, theatrically, it is only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns through the underneath of his thigh that that makes the thirteen year old think of theramin therapy this morning. A travelling stage hypnotist and entertainer called “Punch Bob square fists” performs at the Opera House. He hears about the boys’ condition and offers to attempt a cure , so Tim’s mother accepts.
The experiment takes place in a swamp. Tim’s ears soon add jazz to the silence . Thelonious Muck.
At the edge of the pool, by the brown murk he crouches and looks towards the muddled middle.
The pond is too thick for even the slightest ripple. He blinks, struggles to stay awake. His palms are on the ground, fingers pointed behind him. The ground is soft, but not modern. Something crawls up his arm and he glances at it, a small spiderpig and he lets it crawl. Modern is his unique concern.
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