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in today's episode ace lets us in on his private language.
it's a bendy place, his private language, where words mean whatever ace says they mean.
that makes ace the decider.
sometimes he doesn't like what words come to denote.
he puts them on the witness stand and asks them lots of questions.
so mister bad word, why do you mean this thing and not that?
why?
why?
why?
why?
stop meaning this thing. mean that thing.
why?
why?
why?
why?
why?
why?
stop meaning this thing. mean that thing.
the guilt of words is determined in advance of course. but it's the theater that's important.
once he's demoralized the words with his penetrating line of questioning, he takes the bad meaning downstairs and shoots it in the head.
just like beria used to do except of course not like beria because he was a bad man. a stalinist.
bad.
after ace has shot the conventional meanings of word in the head and buried them in his basement, he replaces them with special ace-meanings that make the whole world do exactly as ace-the-decider thinks it should.
now let's return to our regularly scheduled programming in which ace works to make the term show trial mean whatever he wants it to mean.
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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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