ST(a)G(he)R chap 39 the statue

[Michael Bailey]

…which Bruno mistakes for Lady Liberty- either he’s purblind, or to his deluded outlook it really looks like the Statue of Liberty


-  btw I was thinking of Hicks as 39% Miles Gloriosus and 61% Picaroon, like a cotton-poly blend.
But MG with a sense of humor and a progressable Picaroon, not a dyed-in-the-wool one.



“Somewhere out beyond the western edge of the Old World is said to stand a wonder of our time, a statue hundreds of meters high, of a masked woman draped in military gear less ceremonial than suited to action in the field. Nothing else around for uncounted miles of ocean, only the lofty figure, wind, weather, ocean. Her facial expression, hair and brow at their forbidding height undefined, an open work visor of some darkly corroded metal protecting, some say hiding, her identity, though now and then aircraft at this altitude have reported glimpses of something like a face behind the mask, more specific and somehow more familiar than faces commonly found on public statuary, keeping a direct gaze at the viewer, as if she’s about to speak. Like somebody we knew once a long time ago.”

- Mom on the warpath? When you’re a little kid? Maybe you hammered a nail into the kitchen table, or (heavens forfend) the dining room table, or something like that


- “is said to stand”

 many people are saying