August 10, 2008
The Cover-up
Like Lena, our tabby is generous. Here I attempted to cover for him, since Cindy (who hadn’t visited the scene yet) doesn’t approve of such gifts. The colors streaming away are the remains of chalk drawings done on the front walk by Mia.
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nothing to see here. move along.
Man! What is it, Daryl, about Dallas? I’m already starting to spin my own paranoid conspiracy theory. Things are not as they seem Sure, you’ve got the visual record, but it both reveals and conceals the truth.
Once, the cat left a huge rat on the front porch. I asked Daryl if he would go out and take care of it–thinking, you know, maybe he’d see fit to bury the unfortunate creature. Sure, he said, I’ll take care of it. I sat in the living room and watched him walk out onto the porch and deftly kick the rat into the neighbor’s yard.
Sheila–I would like to write a micro-history of all the small creatures found dead in the Texas School Book Depository.
He’s not dead. He’s sleeping.
Ssssh, everybody! MGS is back, and he thinks . . . well, what he thought one time before. And — he’s right, Michael is. (Hi, Michael!)
Okay, now, everybody be quiet so the little mousie can sleep.
And Daryl can write.
(Daryl, I have not the words to convey to you how much I like that idea. I want you to do it. I mean it.)
Caruth Byrd. sold the window from the t.s..b.d on e bay
starting price 100,000 dollars -highest bid 17 million – but may have been a phony bid
there could be money in the boot that launched the rat into the neighbors yard
Cindy – glass box to install the said boot – diagrams point of impact -trajectory
grass from the nearby knoll
a follow up on Daryl’s book to be — as a suggestion
the surprising amount of people who have died around the Clintons -
- one or two catch the eye
That’s good, Jack. I hope that Daryl and Cindy (and maybe even Mia) follow through on your idea. Either some money might be in it, or — in a more public-spirited vein — a small museum might be set up in situ in the manner of the Sixth Floor Museum.
Ah, Jack, you have no idea how many things I’m already preserving behind glass.
I don’t suppose you know of any taxidermied poodles to be found around Samos, do you?
ah Cindy
we have the vet coming to stay in a few weeks – from england – who
works free – on behalf of the neglected cats and dogs of this island – i will ask
poodles i love- closest of all dogs to a wolf – so i am told
but
of things stuffed and behind glass – there is an infamous exhibit in a Spanish museum – simply called – an African man
and it is a stuffed African man from the 1800s –
but the museum are completely without mind to remove it –
strange they never put in a stuffed Aztec or the like
from the genocides committed
i suppose a body or two might not have lasted an Atlantic crossing but who
wants to be reminded -few males survived Spanish onslaught in the new worlds
jack
I’m very much interested in the fine line between preservation of history and disrespect of those who suffered through it. You’ve provided a fine example of this, Jack.
Yes, thank you Jack for this story of the Spanish museum. There were similar displays of Native Americans here, early in the last century, but thankfully laws have been passed that now prevent such things and also mandate the return of pilfered sacred objects. On a side note, certain Native American tribes are the only people allowed to own the feathers of hawks, which are otherwise protected, with possession of such being grounds for jail time and fines.
And then there’s the wonderful story of Jeremy Bentham in GB, who left instructions in his will that his body be stuffed when he died, and his head used for a football–which it was. The head was later recovered and cleaned up a bit, and now rests at the feet of the remaining stuffed portion which sports a wax replica of the original head. Is it Cambridge where this display may be seen? I forget. Kicked in the head a few too many times I guess.
Lest I haven’t been clear enough on this subject, upon my death I wish to be stuffed Bentham-style and placed under glass.
Thank you very much.
Jeremy Bentham – there you have it Daryl – the origins of football
a head of s Scotsman was favored – and the head kicked between the uppys
and downy s – that is the folks who lived on the north side and those who lived on the south side of the town – the head was kicked and carried -fought over until it exited one of the town gates – the game lasted a long time with much injury and is still played today in southern Scotland -minus the Englishman’s head – why we brits prefer a more rugged game than the more gently artistically inclined Europeans –
see the surrey regt for a game played during an assault of the German lines – 14-18 war – four balls were tossed above the trenches by the officers – the men played all the way to the German trenches -
more importantly
Cindy – a line which divides and is behind glass – oddly beautiful and has an echo – six clock
jack