a reasonable future prognostication
"A Reasonable Future Prognostication," February 5, 2022 (#36)
title from "CivilWarLand in Bad Decline" by George Saunders (1992)
White Teeth by Zadie Smith (1999)
White Fang by Jack London (1906)
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (2009)
A Reasonable Future Prognostication
Through two panels of cheap stained glass on the closed door
they swung out upon the trail and into the silence, the darkness.
My lord, they need supply, they need provision, they need arms, they
explained to him about the neutral place, about the room, about
this light and urged his body toward it in the same way that
I want the king to see it, indeed I want to paint the king, do
who was just heading out the door with a newly packed
same opinion, and proved it to everybody’s dissatisfaction by
dusting themselves. He thinks he hears the cardinal laughing at
giving up all meat. I’m a pescatarian at the moment, but that’s
one leap more and his teeth would be sinking into it. But that
all must have warm and decent clothes, and be encouraged to
live and fucking learn. And I can tell you, if anything said
was tied so closely to his neck that he could scarcely get
a decree telling the king to separate from me,
migrate into the country from the west
in the same way that the cunning chemistry
has ever been able to afford a war.
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2-5-22 The Wizard of Oz (1939)
still from Misery (1990)