Sunday, August 9, 2020

Oliphant



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To convey the point of anything
depends, with a meticulously
unapologetic accuracy,
on displaying it.
.
So inimitably true, that
were the point the revelation
of the role of being idiosyncratic
you, nobody else could be portraying it.
.
Oliphant was all display. There was
nothing else for him to do or say
but to be looked at. To stand
there like a sacred icon,
.
with no expectation other than
what he was sure he would and did
receive: endless queues of worshippers
who wouldn’t leave.
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