I am fretting about Verner VonBraun and the rocket Nazis and Pedophiles and Nabakov. The sins of the father I mutter and think of hollywood as a crooked bank laundering bad ideas. But the movies do remind us that everything is a lie, or potentially a lie and maybe beauty is the only truth. The beauty of a great looking lie.
The two faced outer gouter smiles and cries alternatively while Mr. Delicious waits for lunch time. There is nothing to do but eat and figure out a means of escape, The Peruvian is marching the halls again sporting a face of rage. I think he’s going to flip out and kill us all. He is marching and marching like a soldier around the ward. Is he a guard for Sophie, or an assassin? Nothing better to do and growing pig gut sends Mr. Delicious marching right behind the Peruvian. He catches up and marches past and for a brief second the severe face of the Peruvian melts into a smile. Victory deosn’t smell of Napalm, but rather appears in the form of a smile.
The Peruvian speaks of the bands he played drums in and all the little rock bands that were on the scene back in his glory days. He has a list he is composing of all the bands from the Peruvian scene. I don’t know what he is talking about, but the bands have faboulous spansish names. The Incas, the Aztecs, The Bastardos, El Submarinos, etc.
And when the drugs come it like lowering the scope on a diving submarine… down down down and the voices cant get through the foggy water hidden in alps and dessert pyramids. He can see all possible moves on the chess board of his delusion. He dies, she dies, everybody dies in an elaborate auto de fe like Hamlet meats the Grand Inquisitor… or there is the so called Happy Ending in which the Ice Man Cometh… or maybe it’s just happy cause no one got hurt but that doesn’t seem real happy. Rather I like the circus tent glass house concert… the charity ball fundraiser concert with Bowie and Bob and Neil and maybe Bruce. Paid the cost to be the boss. Raise the red tent. No blood but wine, no torn body but bread and you know dancing.