Proletariat

[tommyb]

(a chapter)

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(waking)


'Try to explain ... we were like Ron and Harry Potter ... Royal and me, Willahford was so intense and passionate he usually had to be babysat 'cause he could be right. Back then 'wanted the Tour chapter to check the Greek box in the Shakespearean play. For some reason 'figured Royal wouldn't mind. 'Was up to my neck in literature back then, typing. He didn't understand June First and how 'was the military's, always had been really. Them's my family all the way back to the Spartans. 'Was glad to understand it, see through it, masculinity does exist on its own, with no connection to femininity, completely independent of God's Country and the abuse. 'Remember when was seventeen and noticed the receding hairline--

"I thought you were like, twenty-nine," Wisconsin says, said later on.

--and cried. Now, 'am one of the impossibly-younger-than-he-is people. Now 'shave in the shower every morning instead of the usual soldier's buzz cut.

"I know Sympathy For The Devil's your favorite Rolling Stones," he's saying, he said. Wisconsin. For its sheer boldness-- "But I think you can speak things into existence."

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[tommyb]

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(night, cigarettes)


"It's like he's stacking the court," one says. "Only it's criminals and the cabinet."

"He's seeing what level of criminal is your line," another says. the cold biting all over us. "'Cause I'm going to play from there. He's negotiating."

POTUS has some sort of problem with the FBI. Sure, 'saw Silence of The Lambs, Jodie Foster, Anthony Hopkins on Halloween night, alone, at a affectingly early age, so 'supposedly 'am bias ... 'Sometimes wonder if myself can put up with them, in an Oppenheimer kind of way, Christopher Wray included, who are these POTUSes to go against him .... them .... 'Am even getting better with copland, sort of, sometimes, by measures, it could be said, in a general sort of way. The FBI is to vet cabinet picks, not the press alone, usually, traditionally.

"Cause the real world doesn't have laws," he says. "And that's the one we're in."

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[tommyb]

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(Friday, 6DEC2024)


(shift change)


"All women are Jewish," Wisconsin says in his Northern.

"I never liked Gone With The Wind," another says, local, Appalachia. He's referring to the tradition of watching the film every Thanksgiving.

"Now Oh Brother Where Art Thou," the one across is saying. "They got that music dead on. As far as here. DEAD ON."

"You mean center-left."

"No, I mean they're unprotected. They have no real rights."

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