The Blue Note

I poured him another round as he stared vacantly as his paper.  The top line read Si vis pacem, para bellum. The student glanced up at me and then back down at this paper.  Behind him, Truman danced on screen as another shot was made.  Again the student glanced up at me.  I want peace, we are prepared, now what?  He said Vegetius didn’t elaborate. Occationally I get a drunken prophet. I pickd up a glass and wiped the inside with a white towel.  It really didn’t do anything by that is what they did on TV.  The student raised his hand to signal another round.  Three measures of Gordon’s, one of Vodka, half a measure Kina Lillet, and shake.  A Vesper.  Apparently my client had expensive taste. He either had money or a desire to go broke. His shirt was ruffled and unbuttoned his hair disheveled from running thing fingers through it, and the outside of his right thumb was red from drumming it on the table in front of him.  This was a man who felt slighted. I had seen it before. Confounded by something that went outside what he knew.

On the ride home after the movies

With the SPECTERs and Dr. No defeated, what is next for James Bond?  Bond was able to take both Russian villains out without even messing up his perfectly styled hair.  Certainly we have spies like that in Russia.  Now obviously life isn’t a movie and the maniacal Russian masterminds would be harder to spot.  You know they wouldn’t all be dressed in dark leather clothes or lab coats with big mustaches and heavy accents.  Oh hey and a word to the wise… if you meet a scantily clad, super hot girl ask her out.  If you meet a scantily clad, super hot girl with an Eastern European accent run the other way!  Seriously though, we have to have guys as good as Bond over there.  I know he is English, but our guys have to be at least as good as their right?  And the Soviets?  Well… what if their guys are good too?  Do you think they have any here?  What if they do, who would they be after?  Would I know one if I saw him?  What if I do know him?

Old world trust

The discussion between the new order and the old has me slightly confused. I do not believe that the old order is gone. It has perhaps been repressed in areas but in no ways is it absent from society. Aspects such as religion, xenophobia, and chivalry still exist today. Are these mere kickbacks to a former time, the appendices and wisdom teeth of society? I think not. One thing that struck me as I read this week was the willingness for people to trust others. Taking a man at his word is surely an old world concept. People simply do not want to believe that someone would deceive them. This trust in people is even more prevalent with considering someone who is religious or “simpler” and you. People either believe that is someone claims to have “good” aspects (religious, hard working, upper class, ect.) that they are worthy of trust even if they have not proved themselves to be trustworthy with some sort of action of loyalty.