7629. WHAT COMES IS WHAT FOLLOWS

WHAT COMES IS WHAT FOLLOWS

Here are all the claimants for the throne  -  even that

ridiculous guy with the plastic tophat wig. Remember

Thomas Dewey? He ran for President, in 1948 and

was laughed at for looking like 'the little man atop the

wedding cake.' He, however, blamed his loss on the

fact of having a moustache. OK then. To me he always

resembled that guy in Monopoly who gave away those

cards -  Community Chest, or whatever they were. So,

forget the wedding cake, yeah. Now the idea is to turn

the wheels without really being seen turning the wheels. 

Some sort of manipulative feint. That's the sort of thing

that works. In the same vein, I saw an old building today

with its fake sides of fake brick-coating, really just a

stucco paste etched in squares to resemble bricks, 

peeling down, in big patches, so as to reveal the tacky

real-wall underneath it. Exposed! I thought to myself,

'No brick, just the idea of brick. No brick, just the 

idea of brick. No brick, just the idea of brick.'