Tuesday, May 29, 2012

And again there came a thunderous applause. His teeth! -The ubiquity of his teeth had commanded them all to clap wildly. All but one. Caroline was raised to distrust everything. Her father reminded her at the breakfast table each morning, after she and her brothers and sisters had completed reading both the Le Monde and the Wall Street Journal, that "one of the great paradoxes of the human physical senses is that your eyes actually show you what you believe, not what you see." Dorothy Parker taught her, "Any story twice is Fiction." And it was Ben Franklin who wrote, "Half the truth is often a great lie." The charismatic row of teeth now stepped to her. The door was closed. He didn't look at her but stayed focused on the pad of paper and asked directly what she thought of his new reality show... "Stuck In A Tube?" "No," she said. How about, "Eat This?" "Brain Slam?" "Put Some Cheese On It?" "Tokyo Back Bend?" "Ass Faced?" "Your Mom Sucks?" "Stick it in my Eye?" "My Dad Can Beat Up Your Dad?" "Whip Lash?" "Pole Pirate?" "Squished?" "Steal This?" -Steal This is very popular in Russia. She sort of sighed.

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