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Florence a week later sitting in the sidecar of a classic mo-
torcycle, wearing a german pickelhaube and body armor.
The press dutifully reported his statement that he had come
in full battle regalia so he could ‘take the flak.’ He pocketed
her money and used it to treat himself to an intimate dinner
party for three hundred close friends. The centerpiece of
the reception hall was a carved ice david with champagne
pouring out of his little penis. That writer’s ‘exposé’ had
been so very good for business.
swallowing the last of his wine, edward picked up his pen.
Why does everyone want to lay nkomo at my feet, as some sort
of moral accusation? Was the man’s very existence somehow my
fault? I eventually figured out he was a maniac and a monster,
of course. Everyone figured that out. However, I do not see how
nkomo’s mental condition was my problem. he was a client, and
it was simply another public-relations engagement – paid for in
advance in US dollars. Besides, from a pure brand-recognition
perspective, nkomo was probably my greatest success story. i am
the genius who devised the idea of ‘the Simon Bolivar of africa.’
i still have a signed blowup of that time magazine cover on my
wall back in rome.
edward had watched from the safety of his apartment
as deutsche Welle streamed live video footage of nkomo’s
regime imploding. edward had stared as nkomo’s paramili-
taries waded into the crowd with machetes swinging, mad-
dened by nkomo’s basso-profondo radio rants commanding
his loyalists to ‘kill every cockroach and feed their hearts to
your dogs!’ A paramilitary flailed and lopped off the head of
a wounded demonstrator. giggling like schoolboys playing
hookie, two of the paramilitaries used the head as a soccer
ball, kicking it back and forth down the street. The camera
blue moon
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