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The Cork General” a short story from “Rainbows in Braille” – A collection of short stories – By Elmo Jayawardena They were the gentle sixties. TIME magazine and the Newsweek didn’t have that many horror stories.  John and Paul were giving the musical world “Father Mackenzie” and “Eleanor Rigby”, and Kakoyannis brought Zorba to the silver screen where Anthony Quinn danced the Chasapiko. Back in Colombo, the Daphnies and the Melanies were doing their last jives at the Little Hut to the horn music of ‘Sam the Man’ before migrating in their micro-minis to be part of their Australian diaspora. That was the time Packy got sacked for writing rhythmic graffiti on the factory wall about his ‘pain in the rectum’ boss. “Somebody did a Judas on me,” he laughed and explained. “No thirty pieces of silver here,” Packy laughed again. “This was cheap and had something to do with ...