Simon knew shoplifting was no way to make
a real living, but he could not do the nine to five. Lifting Snickers bars and Reece’s peanut
butter cups was easy. In December he sleeved a new calendar for the coming year. Cans fit easily in his coat pockets.
Stealing a pot roast? That required embracing the absurd. Once, he fashioned a sling for his arm. And then Simon struck on the idea of
appearing pregnant.
He created a costume.
People were afraid to approach
him. Afraid to ask. The costume provided Simon a strange new
freedom.
-- Mitchell
Hegman
See if you can insert this into a converstion someplace (from Orson Welles in The Third Man).
ReplyDelete“In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed. They produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland, they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace. And what did that produce? The cuckoo clock.”
Haha. I love that! But it gives one pause...
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