I'm not really sure how the ocean works anymore, but as Charterstone Neighbor HelenClark has pointed out... he lost his tie, but not his glasses? His cuff was also torn off his shirt, perhaps from the impact of his 100-foot fall, but again, his glasses are still on his face. I am resolved to accept the fact that Wilbur is alive, for the pure joy of watching him suffer and eventually die a lonely husk of a man without food or fresh water.
Nooooo! No! She brought him back! This means I have to endure another Wilbur redemption storyline. And watch him make sandwiches out of seaweed and coconut “mayonnaise.”
ReplyDeleteShe can bring him back to life as long as she keeps Estelle the hell out of it. That poor woman has been tortured since the day she set foot in Charterstone.
ReplyDeleteMaybe Wilbur will starve to death. Somehow he'll manage to trap and kill one of the many wild boars roaming the island but he won't eat it without mayo.
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So Wilbur will flounder on the beach feeling sorry for himself contemplating all he did wrong. The ship will show up and rescue him. Estelle will marry him on the ship. Then, Wilbur will go on another jaunt around the world revising his I Survived series with Estelle and the cat and dog along for the ride, and if we are lucky, we won't see them on MW for the next year. It's been a few years, isn't it time for Toby to do something stupid? Mary really piles on the platitudes and muffins when it's Toby.
ReplyDeleteWanders, if the Worthy Awards had a category for Best Secret Message, today’s would be a shoo-in for this year’s award, even though it’s only January.
ReplyDeleteWhat caused the dirty spots on Wilbur’s shirt? Did he get carried through an oil slick? On the up side, he no longer seems to be liquored up, just disoriented.
Mary’s feeding muffin crumbs to those peculiar fish. They’re growing at such a rapid pace, tomorrow they’ll leap out of the tank right onto her face.
ReplyDeleteWhat do you mean "He wakes up disoriented"? He's always disoriented.
But *long sigh* face it folks, we're never going to be rid of this jerk. Which is pretty disheartening.
-- Scottie McW.
Old story ... 1940 'My Favorite Wife' with Cary Grant and Irene Dunne and remake in 1963 'Move Over Darling' with James Garner and Doris Day. It is the wife lost at sea and she returns just after the husband has remarried. Poor Wilbur!
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ReplyDeleteAnd he also lost his ugly sport jacket, which he had borrowed from Ian Cameron, PhD.
ReplyDeleteSo he lost his shoe, sock, cufflink, tie and jacket, but not his glasses
It's amazing that he made it to the island without even being awake.
ReplyDeleteI'm still back on Sunday and that confounding quotation by Vladimir Nabakov that seems appropo of nothing having to do with this story. Are we supposed to assume that Wilbur is a wave in the sea? And what in the world CAN explain Wilbur? Or is KM referencing a Russian author in a nod to a coming invasion of Ukraine? Inquiring minds want to know. In any case, Wilbur can't look disheveled enough for my liking. I hope he gets entered into some cruise ship log of knuckleheads who act up and endanger themselves and others on the high seas and is banned from cruising forever. With a big, fat fine for making the ship turn around.
ReplyDeleteGiven that he was just being immature and stupid, he really should have to pay for the cruise ship rescue effort. I bet it takes a lot of fuel to get a cruise ship turned around.
ReplyDeleteI don't understand how he could be at the "passed out" stage of being liquored up and also survive being tossed around in the ocean.
what a bunch of feathers at least when something happens stupid in a comic book they have a couple books to show how they survived .at two panals a day it would take moy 18 months to show how wilber survived .unless shes planning on a giant crab to kill him
ReplyDeleteLet’s just all be thankful that he didn’t lose his belt.
ReplyDeleteDid he wash up on Bogota Beach?
ReplyDeleteI see that beard creeping in. Shortly, we'll have it: "Wilbur Weston. I don't always go swimming, but when I do I dive in from 100 feet up off a cruise ship. [Voice Over} He is, The Most Interesting Man in the World."
ReplyDeleteTomorrow: Wilbur realizes he’s actually washed ashore on Charterstone Beach. And then along came Mary….
ReplyDeleteIt’s like a bad accident, you don’t want to look but you can’t help looking
ReplyDeleteIt would be irresponsible to speculate about such a thing but it would indeed be terrible to see Wilbur attacked by a rabid squadron of Peccaries.
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