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By the time he was seventeen, he had been trained to withstand a full-force strike to the groin. He can lick red-hot iron shovels, break bricks with his skull, fly aboveground upside down in full splits, and sleep standing on one leg.

Comments

[dave zacuto]

whoa, mega odd

[bitchphd]

I feel my masculinity is now severely compromised after reading that.

So compromised I can't even bother to write a better sentence.

[ben wolfson]

So, third sentence, I was vaguely reminded of a section of an ill-remembered song in which the feats of some character in the song are narrated. I've been able to recover very brief snatches of melody and the fact that the lines began with "he can". "He can .... ". Shit.

[ben wolfson]

It's "Jack Orion", from Bert Jansch's album of the same name.