Dum Pendebat Filius

Keith Richards joked that he mixed some of his father’s ashes with cocaine and snorted it all up.

But at least he did not claim to have slain his da with a loy:

PEGEEN

You never hanged him, the way Jimmy Farrell hanged his dog from the license, and had it screeching and wriggling three hours at the butt of a string, and himself swearing it was a dead dog, and the peelers swearing it had life?

CHRISTY

I did not then. I just riz the loy and let fall the edge of it on the ridge of his skull, and he went down at my feet like an empty sack, and never let a grunt or groan from him at all.