Sock graduation

Finishing up June’s graduation theme, one adaptation to the world’s greatest mystery: sock graduation.

Unmatched > pinned > rag box. I graduate when the college next door does, so pin probation lasts a year. You Can’t Take It With You meets “The Lottery.”

Seriously, where do they go? After fifteen years I don’t even have a hypothesis. Although: this was the first graduation in two years and only two socks went to the rag box, suggesting that they are just lying around the house. I may go biennial.

And it’s an end, not a beginning.

Edward Elgar, Pomp and Circumstance Military Marches, March No. 1, 1901. You Can't Take It with You, Columbia Pictures, 1938. Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery," The New Yorker, 26 June 1948.