The Big Blue Wall

Persona non grata

If you don’t tow the party line wow you fall down the sewer hole.  Alice and the rabbit knew all about those sudden 'zips down the proverbial black hole.' It's the grey shimmering shadow line that gets everyone worked up into some sort of frothy and frenzy.  What is maddening is that damn line keeps moving---depending on who else is in the room or what day it is or what hour of the day it is!  Oh, God!  That seven o'clock hour or the 3:35 on the dash time.  And one wonders why anyone would want to bolt!  The masquerade clothes and mask don't fit and those bloomers are killing me!  And like Bugs Bunny I have to cut holes in the floppy hat to peer out.  Just as Alice said, "It ain't my cup o' tea...no, suh...it ain't my cup o' tea, at all."

Hey, it's soon to be 'monster day' on Monday!  What do you expect?

Behind the Home Depot curtains you are suddenly and brutally remade, repainted and refiled.  Sometimes skewered. [And you never even left the house! All you have to do is sit there.] I know!  I know! It's Halloween!  It's that whispered, bullying-- mess with me and I'll show you!  Trick or Treat?  It must be some sort of mad PR game.

No big deal! No one ever truly saw the real you anyway; so it's really a favorable boost to your freedom to live in the sunny, airy reality of true being.  It's those dadrat color filtered glasses again, Alice!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  It's a pity because they can't see without them.  "How wonderful life is..."  The zombie suit was kind of weird though.*

h/t to James Goldman [sic]:  [BTW: Did we ever have the choice?]

Someone else needs to become the bad example in our group
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But you wear shame so well...

I am sure G. K. Chesterton could have muttered it somewhere.  I'll bet Francis thought it after he took off the clothes on the altar after his father accused him of 'stealing' them.

Massah, massah, save me, save me...he was screaming as I swear I saw him running down the steps at the end of the 'long room.'  Maybe that's the Mad Hatter...yah think?
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* The zombie appears to be a philosopher.  A Christian one, I should add ("it is from the Cross alone that I seek mercy") animated by the Virgin Mary to---well, let me abandon the story right there...~Don Ruy in The Hanged Man (1895)  ~Wuthering Expectations blog