he had this crazed look in his
eyes which was hard to discern
he was walleyed
he
used them separate of each other uncomfortably
discordant as if he was playing two hands of TwentyOne at a time excitedly eyeballing
his hole cards
then not looking directly at me or maybe he was and I couldnt tell he said
(Ill never forget it) Were dealing with fanatics
and fanatics are always experts
Experts
What do you call yourself
Call myself Of course Im an expert
he said somehow oblivious droll to the content of his prior remark
Expert
Yes
Not a fanatic
No
How is the inverse of what you said
not true
If a fanatic is always an expert inversely an expert is always a fanatic
Oh not necessarily A fanatics expertise may be rooted in extreme
or hyperbolic beliefs Those beliefs rather
than facts
can be articles of Faith
They are the faithful The Incorruptible
You see
(too tempting though he balked refused the probably
unintended bait) Ah I appreciate your
distinctions
My usual manner is to assume an expert is not someone of
Faith
I would not call a priest an
expert
But
you can appreciate that those he administers believe he is an expert if not
then a learned respected member of the clergy and the Churchs hierarchy
I can appreciate that Though I
would not say Faith is upheld by experts
one of his eyes trembled briefly feigning
an inside move presenting him unaffected but it teased and lazily rolled back
and off a brilliant egg yolk dropped centered in a frying pan slipped off to the
side
Yes A fine thing if experts had to qualitatively prove
themselves against their breed
Theyre often mysteriously conferred commuted
And
often nefariously
Then questionable
To us perhaps Agreed To their
worldview where or how they ascended No
Unassailable experts
Im take no comfort in your words
the other eye parried its mates
movement quivered then fuck it and relaxed to its haven
I intended no comfort
Probably why I didnt
Well This has been vaguely stimulating
I couldnt tell if he was looking
at me or not Informative Thank you
Youre welcome
Much luck with your fanatics
Our fanatics Were tethered
I wish you better
luck with your experts
Thank you
walking off perpendicular into
the grass away from the park bench they met at and sat on he glanced over his
shoulder one last time and caught him admiring two young women in little-left-to-the-Imagination
running apparel who approached him on the path before the bench from either
side
he cursed him under his breath Damn fish
smudged with latent humour
1453, Thursday,
9 6. 16
0817, Friday,
10 6. 16
