#66 Marching Songs- Keith Ridgway
This man is sick, or at least thinks he is. He thinks he is
dying but nobody will believe him. He blames the doctors, the indifference of
people, society, the army and of course former British Prime Minister, Tony
Blair.
“Mr. Blair is not the owner of his own evil. He is the host
of it…His skin is a manila envelope. It contains an argument, not a heart.”
The man is sick. His mental illness is obvious, he fixates
on the things around him and injects his paranoia into everyday things. He once
shook the hand of Tony Blair and is convinced he was injected during that
handshake with a tiny needle filled with nano-technology. He might be a veteran
himself, although I’m not sure. During his brief interaction with Blair, they
talked about formula one racing, so now he watches every racing crash video he
can find on the internet.
This is a very good representation of a fragile human mind:
“Beneath the fault there is solid ground. Beneath the ice. Under all the
cracks. Under all the cracks there is something that is not broken.”
Ridgway does a great job of creating a loose frenetic mood
in the narration. He has a fun, free way with phrasing that made me go back to
re-read several sections to remember what I found I clever.
Notable Passages: “When nothing is happening we want
something to happen, and when something is happening we want it to stop.”
“Policemen are standard procedures. There is nothing to them
that cannot be confused.”
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