[the hero chortles]

playground fights are known to multiply when the wind rises

[the hero grimaces]

tornadoes pluck the chicken of its feathers, the man of his guts

[the hero blubbers]

"only maddogs and englishmen go out in the midday sun"

[there is no valhalla; no hero’s paradise]

rainmaker with a secret for success. it was, after all, thunderstorms, electrical activities in the atmosphere, which brought our world to life

[duckman farts]