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“He was always concerned with usurpation as though he were the king of the mountain. In reality he was the bald-headed gnome who had come from a long line of comics and boozers.”
“If he’d only known the way to flip the pyramid from one end to the other!”
“His position was his greatest asset but he always denied it and pretended the world sat on him for no good reason.”
“Well, he had a stack of reasons each one as stupid as the next one.”
“You know what I would have told him? ‘Let the usurpers have the power. Watch them. Extract whatever value they have, dump the rest out and make things never before seen.”
“It reminds me of all the songs and movies I’ve seen. What sticks? Very little. A snatch here a scene there, perhaps even a line or piece of dialog. The rest descends into the nickel core. And so what sticks is a kind of raw material to be used in the wisest way possible.”
“It’s a reflection of something after all.”
“It’s always disturbing to see reality portrayed so clean.”
“It makes the people look like idiots sometimes.”
“So it does, so it does.”
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