on stepping on ducks

and greasy assassins

There is nothing better than polarities, inconsistencies and contradictions in humans. These aspects of existence are not hypocritical debasements, more, they represent the most simple truth of being human: We’re all dirty filthy rotten animals who have the capacity for better.

Both are true. We can be sophisticated and cold or simple and loving. We humans can find the most sophisticated truths in the most puerile games. My favourite example of this is also one of my favourite games.

In oder to play, you truly need the right people.

You’l first need to contact a sensitive, yet tollerant bunch - but they can’t be too tolerant - you know those confluent accepting of everything anxious pushovers who couldn’t find the spine of a book in a library…

They need to have an edge of threat - the kind that comes with the capacity for either or both physical, emotional or intellectual dominance. They need to be convincing performers with a capacity to lie so perfectly they are convinced themselves.

The…