The Door Had Been Repainted So Many Times that the Lady Was
Extremely Attractive
The door in
question led to Professor Amperscamp’s submarine. In the early years the door had been green,
but by the time of the Johnson administration the color had been changed to
blue to reflect the contemporary emphasis the people’s advocate placed on
anecdote, sanity, and calcium. No one recalled
exactly when the door became a bold coral pink, but when the prince’s
brother-in-law was hustled through it to escape under the waves, McKenzie had
just time enough to note the incongruity between that color and the hunted
man’s masculine scarf, patterned as it was with charging Napoleonic era
soldiers and brave colonials facing down foreign beasts.
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