Genevieve and the Two Scotties by Edward Drobinski - HTML preview
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Chapter 11
Cover of “Endless Shroud;” property of the author.
Hiding in Plain Sight; a Radically Condensed Guide to Nothing 1) The unhappy people demand a “new” answer.
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Angry people yelling; property of the author.
2) The impudent swan offers one possibility.
Swan being impudent; property of the author.
3) The people say; “No, not that. That’s horrible.”
Faceless naysayer with well-used thumb down; property of the author.
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4) The impudent swan quits public speaking and returns to his family.
Swan family. “What, us worry? property of the author.
5) Ten years after, the unhappy people say; “We should have done what the impudent swan said ten years ago. It’s too late now.”
And for once, they are collectively right.
Unhappy prson; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license.
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6) Laborious French writers write inadvertently humorous books about it; some extremely prolonged.
Cover of Proust’s lament A/K/A “Remembrance of Things Past”; public domain.
7) If he’s Greek or even a Roman in spirit, the impudent swan laughs quite a bit, and joins Leda Swan in his swanhood.
Swans playing; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license.
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8) Repeat 1) – 7) until apocalypse or Revelation; depending upon your “religious” persuasion.
A Very Minor Subset of the Same Old Story
1) Casablanca Waters tells the truth. He can’t even choose to dance out of and retract it as Casablanca Waters wrote it on the blackboard. One might shiver to recall the fear instilled upon the pupil when the teacher says; “This is going on your permanent record.”
”Permanent record” and “I don’t care;” property of the author.
2) Initially, it is popular. Not necessarily that anyone likes it; but because it gets some attention for being unusual; like the YouTube fat guys who take the nut shots or the unremembered, Fellini grotesques.
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Unremembered 1950’s Fellini-esque TV grotesque; property of the author.
3) Some actually do like it and say so; or say that they do.
Two Face; property of the author.
4) Things are good for Casablanca Waters and his more succinctly eloquent tagalongs. Casablanca Waters is encouraged.
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Seemingly happy people; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license.
5) A few senior citizens with a terminal case of blabbering no-life accompanied by a yet to be acronymed syndrome which stems from an apparent belief that Oprah is something other than middle brow, more or less, the bookworms making their “good”
case for less, though obviously not satisfactorily to the seniors, who claim to be insulted and proceed to say so devoid of any inclination to attempt to stay on the subject.
Collection of antique radios; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license.
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6) Casablanca Waters finds it funny and somewhat rudely dismisses them.
Laughng prematurely modified; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license.
7) Casablanca Waters’s succinctly eloquent tagalongs depart; one citing cowardliness as if that was some sort of surprise. Even Casablanca Waters considers it a convenient technique which could well have been designed to evoke sucker sympathy.
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”Eloquent” people departing; the kind courtesy of Pexels.com under their CC0 license.
8) Casablanca Waters wonders how dumb they might be, or how dumb they think he is, to use a ploy which can even be imagined by no-talent Palahniuk after copying it from a small aside of David Foster Wallace in “Infinite Jest.”
Must be kidding; property of the author.
9) Casablanca Waters recalls his father’s constant shrugging refrain of; “Well, what did you expect?” and chooses to go back to Winnie’s Five Hundred Acre Wood.
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