GRGR 1,2 oddments

[tesauro terrance]

The Firm controls the narrative. It's Directing the theatre/theater production. Pirate is a great talent. His gift is a great Firm asset. And, he can hum and skip and twirl. He works for Them. He will always work for Them.  No one will, ever,  quit,  the Firm. 
 
 And with that they clapped Candide into irons and hauled him off to the barracks. There They taught him 'right turn,' 'left turn,' and 'quick march,' ... Next day his performance on parade ...
 
The song and dance makes the bitter medicine go down. Of course, one day The Firm will go down too. You know, What goes up comes down and ... the bigger They are....
 
The Firm knows that Their achilles heel is silly song and dance and profanity and chance. 
 
Not so sure we are as They are or as Pirate is. We can still tell the to Fuck Off at this point, but we want to keep on watching the show. Don't we? 
 

jporter <jp3214 at earthlink.net> wrote:

And the strangely conspiratorial narrative thrust just after
the sudden emergence of Pirate's condition in the form
of the hallucination of Transylvanian Magyars:

-might as well mention here that much of what
the dossiers call Pirate Prentice is a strange
talent for-

In other words, we are somehow in The Firm's archives,
privy to the Pirate Prentice file, along with a guide able
to provide helpful commentary on what lies therein, and
we welcome the insight thus gleaned.

 

Well, this isn't so bad, then, as long as we've got a security
clearance, and all. As long as one of the ushers doesn't
happen along and urge us to "Just hum the nitwit little tune
they taught you, and try not to fuck up" In other words, follow
the bouncing ball- can't forget we're still in that theatre, after all.
Maybe, if we're good we can have a uniform and a badge,
maybe a piece.

Just in the privacy of our own thotz...little kinda Zen meditation-

jody


On Nov 7, 2005, at 12:13 AM, Cometman wrote:

> Pirate's career
> The Adenoid story could be an iridescent hallucinatory bubble floated
> over some colder facts:
> "Lord Blatherard Osmo was discovered mysteriously suffocated....Some
> have seen in this the hand of the Firm" (p16, lines 31-33)
>
> Pirate works for the Firm. Maybe this is how he's chosen to remember
> "The Osmo Affair" which episode could have involved Osmo being a double
> agent with Pirate witnessing and/or enabling Osmo's cocaine habit, and
> finally killing him and/or witnessing/failing to prevent his death.



		
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