Leda au Cygne (Cezanne)
NEAR CHANGES
from “The Year’s Top Trivia,”
Sanford Teller Information Please Almanac, 1978
“Bob Holt, a 20-year old Seattle man,
was quietly walking on a downtown street,
disguised as a mallard duck,
when he was–for no apparent reason–
attacked by a husky, 6-foot tall
bearded stranger.
The perpetrator spun him around by one wing,
tore off his duck bill,
hit him over the head with it,
and ran away.
Holt, who was dressed as a duck
to promote a local radio station,
had no explanation for the incident.
He told police,
‘I didn’t speak to him,
I didn’t flap my wings
or do anything like that.’”
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