under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit," Count Non said.
"Its shit like that that most weeks made me cut Sunday school," said Spyder. "I got a beating for it, but Ill take that over brainwashing. Everything we do or try is corrupt? What are we supposed to do with our lives?"
"According to a number of prophets," said Non, "our true calling is a lifetime of worship and little more. "
"Praise the lord and pass the ammunition," said Spyder. "Thanks, but no thanks. "
"I agree. "
"Youve got quite a stack of biblical pickup lines, Count. You in the seminary or something?"
"I am the victim of a classical education. I learned at a young age that a good quote is a good way to appear smarter than you really are. "
"In Italy for thirty years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock," recited Spyder. "Welles says that in The Third Man. I remember it whenever life goes all abstract -expressionist. "
"Thats every other weekend for you, right?" said Lulu.
"Fuck you, Martha Stewart. "
"Id fuck Martha. "
Along a high ridge to the east, desert nomads were salvaging junk from the sand. They had sheets of sand-scoured metal, ornate urns and statues piled on long sleds that they hauled, by hand, across the dunes.
"Should we stop and say Hi?" asked Lulu.
"Why?" asked Shrike.
"I dont know. So we dont seem like assholes. &quo
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