Synopsis ""76" Clancy's Journey: (Revised Version 2017)"
Out of Sherwood Content, Jamaica comes great stories to you, and the world at large. Jamaican story worth telling, with a bit of patois thrown in here and there. Here is another such great story just for you. Set in the early eighties in small-town Jamaica, 76, Clancy's journey tells the story of a gifted Jamaican schoolboy who was well on his way through high school and heading straight into university. Young Clancy was fast becoming one of the country's topmost schoolboy football player, but then his idol: Bob Marley died, and Clancy's life took a drastic turn. Here's an excerpt.Mr. O'Connor's Range Rover had just pulled up into the driveway. "Waah gwaan sah?" Said Mr. O'Connor (which means, What's going on? In the queen's most noble language.) As he lighted out of the vehicle, he was to have asked again. "What have you been up to of late?" "Dad!" Clancy replied as he met his father on the step just outside of the doorway. "I haven't seen you in a long time," he would have said further. As they shook hands and then shoulder bumped. Slapping each other on the back in the usual O'Conner father-son manner."So, you just quit school, picked yourself up and leave overnight, why?" "Long story - dad, but it's all good, moving on to bigger things." "Bigger things?" Mr. O'Connor shot back at him... "What bigger things are there than getting a good education? Which is what you gave up to go chasing after... God knows what." "I'm following my dreams - dad, and it's actually working just fine. Can we go inside?" Mr. O'Connor shook his head. "Kids nowadays," he said over his shoulder as he walked through the living room. Holding on to his briefcase loosely. The handle across the lower joints of his fingers. But the thumb, proud and rebellious. Hanged aloft refusing to even so much as touch the leathery contraption."...You all seem to think that you know everything."
