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ONE NEW WRINKLE by the Japanese the reporter didn’t mention was that the guards wore surgical masks and rubber gloves when they were on duty, even up in the towers and atop the walls. That wasn’t to keep them from spreading infections, of course. It was to ensure that they didn’t take any of their loathsome charges’ loathsome diseases back home with them. * * * WHEN I WENT to work over there, I refused to wear gloves and a mask. Who could teach anybody anything while wearing such a costume? So now I have tuberculosis. Cough, cough, cough.
But I would tell him now, if he hadn’t been killed while trying to save the horses, that the most important message of a crucifix, to me anyway, was how unspeakably cruel supposedly sane human beings can be when under orders from a superior authority.
Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot expect to understand absolutely everything.
BEFORE I FORGET: During her job interview, she asked Jason Wilder where he had gone to college. He said, “Yale.” “You know what they ought to call that place?” she said. “No,” he said. And she said, “Plantation Owners’ Tech.”
JUST BECAUSE SOME of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.
