discomposition

Updated: May 3, 2025

I declare to ye that Pontius Pilate, a man dead two hundred years, dragged up with the lake slime coverin' him and fishes wrigglin' inside of him widout eyes, and in the discomposition of the body, sits there, sir, and washes his hands in the bowl I hold for him on Good Fridays. 'Twas so commanded." Clearly, the matter had progressed far beyond the scope of the Bugle's local column.

O. Henry - Sixes and Sevens