
it is often stated that news lurks on the sports page – at least anything worth reading. john cleese, after starring in the monty python comedy troupe, produced a series of episodes concerning a hotel owner and his wife. this seems to be modeled after Camus’s yellowed note that was found under a bunk in an Algerian prison. the story goes, that there was an Eastern European merchant, who settled in the West and made a fortune. after a number of years, he decided to visit his wife and son in a Balkan town. suffering from headaches, with a small pill bottle, he noted the names of hotel guests and wearing a leopard-skin pillbox hat, stayed anonymously in a compartment. on heading about the arrival of a wealthy foreigner, the old woman ran her mouth to the townsfolk and hatched a plot to murder the rich bugger and split it with her son. at midnight, the aging widow, a grey-haired lady took an axe to rm. 9 on the second floor, only to find out that it was her late husband. when camp-ing along Highway 1, Jack Kerouac was involved in Cal Fire, working on a trail crew … unsure, I watched Factotum, based on a Bukowski novel and he worked as a postal service carrier. in the vein of Burroughs. what do we make of the Manicheans? is x-tianity formalized in a primitive morphe, the roman-a-clef with Herzogian implementations in cinematographies ad infinitum?
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