MY GRANDFATHER’S THUMB
March 28, 2024
Perhaps now that we all have screensand video after sickening video illuminating them,this trick wouldn’t delight—but when I was a child,my grandfather would sever his thumb. He’d tug it, wiggling, away from its nub,a few inches before he’d ease it backto the lonely base, and if, he said, I’d watchhim spit, the thumb would reattach,...