Prelude

Everything in the City is just a prelude for what’s coming up.

Everything you want in the City is just a substitute for what you’re actually going to get.

If both parties are wont to blame each other for all annoyances and disappointments, then what you might call a “relationshi,p” would be better named a mad, four legged dance attempted at two different tempos with four ears picking up two separate songs.  A ridiculous tango done in a life boat from the Titanic.

I started to offer you this little four word maxim: “Real Revolutions are untidy,” but actually, compared to ordinary City life, these uprisings are downright neat and exact.  (In the same way a forest fire is symmetrical and systematic.)

This could sound a bit “off-putting,” but I know you can see measurements beyond the outlines of words, so here ‘tis:  Under most ordinary conditions, those who passionately struggle against the tyrannical and the cruel become themselves cruel and tyrannical.  You do see, or suspect, the right angle view of this?

J.