"I think it's hilarious," laughs Brooklyn playwright Helena Silversmith.
"I mean,
listen to 'em bray! They must think it's funny, too."
Three of Helena's friends,
Alicia Nixon and Patty Dodge of Brooklyn and Sylvia
Truce of Atlanta, Georgia
were turned into donkeys when they chanted 'semong on!' ('no gnomes!' backwards)
while step dancing in front The Vengeful Little Gnome in a fog-shrouded grove
in
Rockaway Beach. "Well, come on," Silversmith notes. "He's
not called the Forgiving
Little Gnome, or the Nice Little Gnome Who Gives You
Chocolate No Matter What You Do.
He's vengeful.
Honestly, what do you expect?" Asked if her friends will eventually return
to
human form, Silversmith shrugs. "What do I look like? The Friendly Little Brooklynite
Who
Predicts The Future? How should I know?"
