Gentle Reader,
At the risk of boring you and repeating myself,
It may yet be a good time for me to review a few of the more unpleasant truths
about my life in this benighted outpost on the edge of a mighty empire....
The weather is not healthy.
The living conditions are not healthy.
Sun alone does not make health.
Needed too are such ingredients as social solidarity and fresh fruits and vegetables.
But for daily unpleasantness, it is hard to beat the misery of dry skin,
cuts on your fingertips springing up overnight at the edges,
oh so painful,
And then there is the allergy which I seem to have acquired,
and have endured for three or six months,
getting worse every day,
making my head spin,
filling my throat and nasal passages with a stubborn white fluid...
an allergy to what?
Perhaps the idiotic forced air heating system,
perhaps the omnipresent air conditioning systems favored by all of the local merchants
and medical authorities...
(called by some beloved fictional characters "quacks"---hence, that fictional calling
can't be taken seriously by you)
all in all,
an ugliness only equalled by the more magnificent ugliness of the
local version of USA-style wealth inequality,
manifested by a certain tone of voice used in identifying the
region of the city from whence one comes...
manifesting itself in such recent appearances as the explanation
by a member of the local water mafia, who explained that they
could not shut off the water in regions dense with hospitals and
medical facilities, who failed to note that precisely those regions
happened as well to be "high rent" districts.
The places where the richer people lived were better
served by a so-called public service... i.e., a so-called public service which,
miracle of miracles, served the broad public in a discriminating fashion,
favoring the more monied among the public.
No, gentle reader, it was not Karl Marx who said that we are all created equal,
it was one of those holy men deemed a "founding father"......
But, you see how wrong he was....
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