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This is an urbanization-fable inspired by King of New York and The Phantom of the Opera.
Cheers,
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Consumers took advantage of every convenience in the modern city of great traffic. It was an Orwellian daydream...
A crow watched over all this activity and offered the message that this was some kind of anti-Christian vanity. Were there wolves on Wall Street?
A crime-syndicate known as Black Mask circulated narcotics, mostly opium, and enforced their dominion with thugs/vandals who wielded hammers and darts. It was almost cinematic and certainly juvenile.
A vigilante named the Crow tried to dismantle Black Mask after his wife was killed by members of Black Mask. The Crow was an FBI agent named Eric Snow who became the night-time vigilante to avenge the death of his wife.
Eric loved plays and operas and attended them regularly with his wife. After the death of his wife, Eric became the Crow and used art now as an 'inspiration' for urban vigilance.
The Crow challenged the first-knight of Black Mask, a ruffian-swordsman named Top-Dollar. The Crow managed to decapitate Top-Dollar with a sword of his own, and now Black Mask began dissolving, and the Crow wanted to watch plays and operas again.
Eric met a beautiful stage-performer named Mercedes who began healing his heart and persuaded him to put aside his fantasies about justice and embrace the modern world as a place for romance and joy.
Eric took Mercedes to a festive Christmas-time ice-skating event at Rockefeller Center in NYC and began forgetting about the insidious ugliness of Black Mask altogether...
Eric sent a home-made stick-figure doodle of an 'Evil Elf' to the NY Post with an editorial about how Black Mask shattered basic pedestrian Christian idealism towards the Christmas season by creating 'tremors' in traffic; Eric (the Crow) suggested that Black Mask was nothing more than a 'veil' for anti-American mischief.
Eric and Mercedes attended a showing of the play Phantom of the Opera, produced by the celebrated Rodgers & Hammerstein company on Valentine's Day in NYC. Eric began putting away his 'vigilance-vigilantism' mask of the Crow and daydreamed simply about marrying Mercedes and becoming a painter.
A new breed of crime-fighters arose to take Eric's place now that he was retiring, and comic book writers began writing dramatically/romantically about these anti-terrorist crusaders (some of whom worked for the FBI) and presented them as 'Christian comic book dolls.'
Eric and Mercedes purchased a handsome loft in Manhattan, and Eric bought a nice silver flashlight which he and Mercedes kept as a 'memento' of their commitment to each other and a reminder of the simple homely comforts of shared warmth and security...
A comic book artist continued to praise the work of the Crow (Eric Snow) by creating nifty color-pencil drawings of the once-vigilante as a 'night-time angel' of justice with a samurai-sword signifying a Christian devotion to traffic safety and urban virtue. The Crow was now officially an 'American celebrity.'
TRUMP: I'm a huge fan of the Crow...
CARTER: Yes, Eric Snow was like Wyatt Earp of New York City.
TRUMP: They should make a movie about Eric!
CARTER: They're already generating comic book stories.
TRUMP: Black Mask minions were wielding hammers and darts, Carter.
CARTER: They attacked policemen and shoppers.
TRUMP: Black Mask was like the Manson Family and Al Capone rolled into one!
CARTER: Yes, the Crow offered New Yorkers real security...
TRUMP: There're rumors that Eric Snow is a big fan of the opera.
CARTER: Yes, he and his fiancee attended a Rodgers & Hammerstein production.
TRUMP: The Phantom of the Opera?
CARTER: Yes; in a way, the Crow really was like the 'phantom of a New York opera.'
TRUMP: That's true, especially if you consider urban governance a 'play.'
CARTER: Urban security has become a sort of metaphysical paranoia.
TRUMP: That's why we admire urban crusaders and general vigilance.
CARTER: What does the First Lady think of the Crow?
TRUMP: She told me she's intrigued by these new Crow comics...
CARTER: Maybe Eric Snow will be considered a modern-day urban 'Alexander.'
TRUMP: God bless America!
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Cheers,
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Consumers took advantage of every convenience in the modern city of great traffic. It was an Orwellian daydream...
A crow watched over all this activity and offered the message that this was some kind of anti-Christian vanity. Were there wolves on Wall Street?
A crime-syndicate known as Black Mask circulated narcotics, mostly opium, and enforced their dominion with thugs/vandals who wielded hammers and darts. It was almost cinematic and certainly juvenile.
A vigilante named the Crow tried to dismantle Black Mask after his wife was killed by members of Black Mask. The Crow was an FBI agent named Eric Snow who became the night-time vigilante to avenge the death of his wife.
Eric loved plays and operas and attended them regularly with his wife. After the death of his wife, Eric became the Crow and used art now as an 'inspiration' for urban vigilance.
The Crow challenged the first-knight of Black Mask, a ruffian-swordsman named Top-Dollar. The Crow managed to decapitate Top-Dollar with a sword of his own, and now Black Mask began dissolving, and the Crow wanted to watch plays and operas again.
Eric met a beautiful stage-performer named Mercedes who began healing his heart and persuaded him to put aside his fantasies about justice and embrace the modern world as a place for romance and joy.
Eric took Mercedes to a festive Christmas-time ice-skating event at Rockefeller Center in NYC and began forgetting about the insidious ugliness of Black Mask altogether...
Eric sent a home-made stick-figure doodle of an 'Evil Elf' to the NY Post with an editorial about how Black Mask shattered basic pedestrian Christian idealism towards the Christmas season by creating 'tremors' in traffic; Eric (the Crow) suggested that Black Mask was nothing more than a 'veil' for anti-American mischief.
Eric and Mercedes attended a showing of the play Phantom of the Opera, produced by the celebrated Rodgers & Hammerstein company on Valentine's Day in NYC. Eric began putting away his 'vigilance-vigilantism' mask of the Crow and daydreamed simply about marrying Mercedes and becoming a painter.
A new breed of crime-fighters arose to take Eric's place now that he was retiring, and comic book writers began writing dramatically/romantically about these anti-terrorist crusaders (some of whom worked for the FBI) and presented them as 'Christian comic book dolls.'
Eric and Mercedes purchased a handsome loft in Manhattan, and Eric bought a nice silver flashlight which he and Mercedes kept as a 'memento' of their commitment to each other and a reminder of the simple homely comforts of shared warmth and security...
A comic book artist continued to praise the work of the Crow (Eric Snow) by creating nifty color-pencil drawings of the once-vigilante as a 'night-time angel' of justice with a samurai-sword signifying a Christian devotion to traffic safety and urban virtue. The Crow was now officially an 'American celebrity.'
TRUMP: I'm a huge fan of the Crow...
CARTER: Yes, Eric Snow was like Wyatt Earp of New York City.
TRUMP: They should make a movie about Eric!
CARTER: They're already generating comic book stories.
TRUMP: Black Mask minions were wielding hammers and darts, Carter.
CARTER: They attacked policemen and shoppers.
TRUMP: Black Mask was like the Manson Family and Al Capone rolled into one!
CARTER: Yes, the Crow offered New Yorkers real security...
TRUMP: There're rumors that Eric Snow is a big fan of the opera.
CARTER: Yes, he and his fiancee attended a Rodgers & Hammerstein production.
TRUMP: The Phantom of the Opera?
CARTER: Yes; in a way, the Crow really was like the 'phantom of a New York opera.'
TRUMP: That's true, especially if you consider urban governance a 'play.'
CARTER: Urban security has become a sort of metaphysical paranoia.
TRUMP: That's why we admire urban crusaders and general vigilance.
CARTER: What does the First Lady think of the Crow?
TRUMP: She told me she's intrigued by these new Crow comics...
CARTER: Maybe Eric Snow will be considered a modern-day urban 'Alexander.'
TRUMP: God bless America!
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