She went on, her cheek (recedent) against mine (pursuant); and this was a good day, mark, O reader!
“If you don’t have a pencil, but are old enough to read—”
“We,” I quip-quoted, “medieval mariners, have placed in this bottle—”
“If,” she repeated, “you don’t have a pencil, but are old enough to read and write—this is what the guy means, isn’t it, you dope—scratch the number somehow on the roadside.”
“With your little claws, Lolita.’ ”
Why is he saying medieval mariners and what does it mean to scratch the number on the roadside?
by chee006