An Usual Event of Helen Holm

An excerpt of John Irving’s ” The World According to Garp”

Helen’s head was flung forward, narrowly missing the steering column, which caught her at the back of her neck. Many wrestlers’ children have hardy necks, because Helen’s did not break – though she wore a brace for almost six weeks, and her back would bother her the rest of her life. Her right collarbone was broken, perhaps by the rising slam of Michael Milton’s knee, and was gashed across the bridge- requiring nine stitches- by what must have been Michael Milton’s belt buckle. Helen’s mouth was snapped shut with such force that she broke two teeth and required two neat stitches in her tongue.

At first she thought she had bitten her tongue off, because she could feel it swimming in her mouth, which was full of blood; but her head ached so severely that she didn’t open her mouth, until she had to breathe, and she couldn’t move her right arm. She spat what thought was her tongue into palm of her left hand. It wasn’t her tongue, of course. It was what amounted to three quarters of Michael Milton’s penis.

“AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!! I freaked out when I first read that part! This is when Helen was giving a blow job to her students in his car. Unti, she had a car accident caused by Garp, her husband. It’s an interesting story, worth reading if you’re really like sex.”

-Dipta Nath Chowdhury