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I saw something so ironic today, and very quick.
The day ended with bright and overcast skies, and as you moved backward,
the clouds became sterner and lower until at the earliest hours,
windswept fog swept the highways dangerously slick with rain. I
took a break at noon, and after I had washed and dried my hands
in the restroom at the Holiday Inn at Fisherman's
Wharf, three men came through the door in quick succession. As the
third man entered the cramped quarters, he paused to hold the restroom
door open, as if for my benefit, though blocking me from a clear
shot at the trash! Then he moved directly in front of the basket
to crank out a long length of paper towel for himself, I guess for,
well, who knows? Now what's interesting about this temporary blockade,
from a supposedly "considerate" person, is that an unconscious
part of him, I could see, saw what he was doing! "It's a little
green eyeball that has a whole universe in it," my teacher
said yesterday, and I wondered most of the day what that could be.
Then I saw a picture of it! It's on the back of a dollar bill, the
green eyeball over the pyramid! "Annuit Coeptis,"
the uncut reverse of the Great Seal of the United States reads,
"Novus Ordo Seclorum." [Rough translation from
the Latin: "A new succession of ages are upon us; The Eye of
Providence is favourable to our endeavours."] Except when it's
the third eye of the fourth man inside a Holiday Inn restroom!
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