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“You are one crazy bitch.” “I’m a shy person, I guess,” she said. “I don’t know. I don’t like people who talk about themselves.” Sitting at the table, Consuelo and Montemayor sang a song, and those present showered them with applause, and yet the conversation immediately turned to other topics and the singing was forgotten. Mortimer finally got up and announced that he’d be more than happy if people wanted to wander round and take a look at his house. The guests dispersed in small groups in the spacious abode. I float on a fiery-red wind blanket out beyond a little island in the middle of the Caribbean that I christen THE TRANSPARENT ISLAND, though it’s made of the same material as islands in general and nothing can actually be seen through it. I’m naked, but next to me on the wind blanket is a big towel that I can grab should a merman come. I shut my eyes. “I was?” It’s too windy. We’ll have coffee at Arnbjartur’s. There’s no end to poor Seli’s troubles. But he has only himself to blame. I told him to stay away from your mother. She was an incredibly dubious character. The door cracked open a hand’s breadth. “A man to see Ross,” their escort announced. * * * I was like an immigrant before immigrants came into the picture. If I’d been born ten years later, I wouldn’t have stood out so much. He remained completely motionless. “You have to stay and be my taste tester,” my mom said. He went over the plan. The house, like every grass-having house on our block, had two front lawns: a bigger one separated from a smaller one by a driveway. The bigger side was three times the size of the smaller one, about 170 square feet. What he wanted was for the entire smaller side to be dug out and turned. He was going to fill that small side with cement, to extend the width of his driveway by five or so feet. That would take me a day or two, tops, he said, and we’d start there. The next step in the plan was to dig out a circle — ten feet in diameter — from the bigger side of the lawn. To the best of my ability, I was supposed to center the circle in the yard. I’d have to measure it and mark it off somehow. Then I’d get to digging. “Then why are good soldiers in a prison camp, sir? Perhaps a new war is beginning.” At twelve, I felt both prepared for the simplicity of the average adulthood and eager to sense the nuances of a more complicated version, one I’d have much preferred to live. Already I’d divided those older than me into these two camps: Pester and Foster. These were actual lists I kept as a kid, written with red ink (“Pester”) and blue (“Foster”). And like all camps, they had their leaders. Conawago frowned and slowly turned his hand up, revealing a slip of paper between two fingers. He remained silent as Duncan took the paper and read its single word. If I have dwelt on this argument about copying, it’s because it has created a gulf between my colleagues and me that has never been filled. However much I might introduce new fashions or designs, bring about new manufacturing processes, and keep vast industries alive, the world of couture has not understood a thing. Man is born a bureaucrat, youcan’t change him. He codifies everything; he dykes up all the rivers and religions end up in green files..