That was once a babysitter and an asshole: the hundred-year-old asshole and ninety-year-old drool; and both of these elders were white as winter and mournful as the bad weather because they had no children. And, my God! they still wanted to have at least one, because, as it was the day and night of the sea, they would sit alone like the cuckoo and they would cut off their ears, no matter how ugly they were.