Maybe it is the recent experience of protesting against the pope that has me seeing paedophilia everywhere. Or, without knowing it, i’ve become a Daily Mail reader. Which gives much the same effect from completely opposite causes. Anyhow, somehow my mind has been poisoned and I see peedos everywhere. I was scanning through a corpus of child directed speech. A transcribed collection of conversations between adults and children. The sentences aren’t usually in any particular order but I read this extract as a somewhat sinister encounter
hello alicehelloalice how are youalice how are younot gonna do itwhat’s in therewhat’s in therewhatlookwhat is itcan you get itcan you get himcan you get himhello alice hellocan you get himpull this upi’m sorry i’m sorry babyi’m sorry i didn’t think that would scare youi didn’t think it wouldhelloi’m sorry i scared you i’m really niceyou wanna touch metouch mei’m lonesomeokayi’m sorry alicei’m sorryi’ll put it awaygood byeit’s away it’s awaywhat can you do with thiswhat’s thisblockblockit’s awayit’s awaylook it’s over hereit’s over herehelloit’s awaylook
