by Anura Guruge
on April 18, 2022
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As I have often posted on this blog, I, for the last year or so, listen to 2 hours of an audio book, via Amazon’s ‘Audible‘, during my daily, 4-mile morning walk.
I am currently listening, with great pleasure, to “Anna Jean Mayhew’s” debut novel “The Dry Grass of August“. I plan to do a post about it when I am done. I still have about 90-minutes left (& I will be sad when it is over). Very well written & quite the story.
This morning she happened to mention a man (the protagonist’s dad) walking up from under a pier pulling up his zipper. That was in August 1954. I was 11-months old.
I had NOT realized that zippers were in common use in the U.S. in 1954. We sure did not get them in Ceylon till the 1960s. So, I thought that this might have been an anachronism. I made a mental note to check when I was on my PC. I did. I found the above. So, it was not an oversight. She had got it right. (I am glad).
Well, something else I learnt — & that always makes me happy, i.e., learning something new every day.
