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it's hard to imagine "real american values" applying to a zelig, isn't it?
besides, those are for the little people.
when you're one of the high rollers, anything goes.
it's the little people's fault for not knowing that, really.
but then again, it's not unusual for the servants to take their fantasies about the lives of their masters far more seriously than they take the lives of their masters. think about samouri films. slaves who actually believed the construction they made for themselves to account for how those with power lived. they were useful then they weren't then they were tossed aside. they hung around for a while, got in a bunch of fights and eventually either became masters and abandoned what the samourai believed or they died out.
that's a nice story and i'm glad i told it.
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a gramophone its corrugated trumpet silver handle
spinning dog. such faithfulness it hear
it make you sick.
-kamau brathwaite
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