Established Marvel : a Monk by Abbreviation

61. FEATURELESS FACES OF LAWYERS AND SCRIBES:

You can't retro-fit a legend to match the present day so if it's a connection you're making you first have to find the thread which brings together the items of which you speak : DeWitt Clinton High School and the arbitration of the unseemly field or the Fort Lee Union Marching Band and the incipient incendiaries of Monitor County and it seemed then as if every place I went had something to do with the past and its meaning as it took place for the present day : I couldn't find most real definitions worthy and often watched for newsmen lurking by the courthouse or anything else along Foley Square where the big guns came to when they went on trial or were about to get fried and it was always interesting - film trucks lunch wagons make-up guys and the rest it was a small veritable Hollywood entabulature all set up for temporary glory in the covering of a trial's duration or anything like that and security was never much although there always were police around and sometimes bodyguards too but who cared I didn't and no one else did either - magazine photographers and newsguys huddled and ready to pounce for photos stories comments wisecracks asides and grimaces or smirks the featureless faces of lawyers and scribes the regal cars of the mobsters and hoods the dames the big yellow hair on the tight-assed women in tow it all made for a wonderful circus in whichever season - of course the Summer ones were better because there was more to see and cleavage too but usually in the Summer like that not too much big stuff happened so most of it all was Fall or Winter trials and sentencings that became the most fun and sometimes I just walked around to see what was to happen - food vendors in their usual carts the newsboys and the magazine sellers standing around and a few Chinese oblivious to any of it - the janitors the drivers the cops those were the ones who counted and who really knew things and they'd talk to you if you were nice about it or gave them something like coffee or a donut or whatever and it was these same people who loved getting their mug on camera and prattling on about something they saw or had heard and then lo and behold! they'd get their face on a few seconds of TV coverage that night or the next and for a mini-instant to themselves they'd be famous and justified and right and important - until it all faded away again - but it was always fun and back in those days there were cop cars with just the little light on top and city paint jobs and they weren't much to look at and there were still a good bunch of horse cops around and maybe just a few motorcycle guys - no scooters or wagons - and everybody knew their business and knew their worth and just stayed straight ahead and doing their jobs and people back then too people had a lot more faith in everything and believed in and cared for things which went on unlike today's irony-ridden and jaundiced crowd who care for nothing and believe even less and anyway are now so distracted with phones and other stuff on those phones that they really know of very little anyway and care for less : it's a different by far world that still spins the same but everyone in it has a different make-up now and goes about everything differently too and sad to say most people are morons anyway and do moronic things and aren't serious or well-rooted about any issue or item and they really do seem to know less about everything than ever before and it doesn't even bother them that such is the case.
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So what is it that I do ? I mark each day as a day forward and move on accordingly - hopefully gaining hopefully proceeding and with hope going on - and that gives me great justice and a great confidence and rightness though it is not of my own but comes from somewhere else comes from a Father comes from a faith in so many greater things and I knew that then and I know that now even though between those times there has been a huge climate change and I've gone from ignorant to exalted in the same way - non-linear and obscure being both the same for me - except every move has been a move not for ME per se but so as to advance the chronicle advance the picture and spur the motivation yet now as I age and wither too I reach the point where accumulation must succeed in portraying this experience and THUS is here all of what you are reading...