“Don't be such a nuisance!” the fat
boy said to him. “I don't care if they think you're like that
Danish guy!”
August looked at him. “They all think
it's like him, and not me, to actually be annoying everyone!
Therefore I have to annoy people in order to stay into being like
him! Besides I'm kind of a bit Danish too! I have heritage from Kile,
and that's on the Danish Peninsula!”
“Oh, your a bit Danish are you! Well,
here's Danish for you! I'm not anything close to being Danish, and
I'm not anything like the kind of a guy you should be talking to
about him! Besides I despise that Danish guy for having it he's
revived as soon as they tell him he's about to be clever enough to
seem more of an adequate guy than one would suppose him to be!”
“I think you're just simply too
obnoxious to understand that I've got a point in presenting him as
the guy who'd want to be admired for being nothing of the kind when
they tell him he's insufficient for the situation of being a fellow
who is just like I am - only I can't get at them by seeming
inadequate just when I tell them! On the other hand, it's I who can
get at them when they don't care to take advantage of that they seem
to know better than to like him. I can only try to convince them that
I'm rather good at saying to the people I have to do with that I am
another type of fellow than they would expect me - or him - to
be!”
“What do you mean that you simulate
him at all if you're not able to do what you say he does?”
“What are you talking about?!”
“I mean the part about seeming
inadequate for what they say while they're at saying it!”
“I can imitate it and thus be able to
do that as well! I even triumph over him nowadays! Not even he can
beat me, when I'm into my role of being him, at seeming inadequate
for that contempt of theirs!”
The fat boy wondered, it seemed, about
why he figured he was too smart to be imitating simply what he wanted
for an idol, and too silly to believe it wasn't he who he was
supposed to imitate for it. “How come,” he asked, after looking
thoughtful for a while, “can't you feel up to imitating him as
though they weren't what they thought they were, instead of just
being a nuisance about how they seem to feel that you are totally not
the guy they even more despise?”
“For the reasons I've talking to you
about before, Gary! It's he and I who are despicable in those
bullies' eyes! But it's not he and I who become despicable now that I
can be obnoxious as were I that guy, and not me! I am not about my
heritage for that, because I know many others from Denmark or
northern Germany whom I feel assured now, that they wouldn't despise
them! But I wouldn't feel assured about that had I not been imitating
that Danish fellow!”
Gary looked at him and said: “Whatever
you say, you're not really at all of my interest! Why the fuck do you
come here and annoy me about it?! Why don't you feel that I could now
go to those people and tell them that you're not Anders, but Ted?!”
“It's because you already are part of
my imitation of that Anders! If you go to them and tell them you also
tell on yourself! You seem to be the kind of fellow who would tell on
me just to be getting away from them! And thereby I can blackmail you
to the extent that I don't have to be the only guilty one in their
eyes!”
“How can that be I who would have to
be into imitation of anyone that has anything to do with him?!”
“It's because you actually seem to be
his friend from Denmark, and you have been seeming to imitate him
when you have been scolding me for seeming so ridiculous about being
so to speak acrobatic and lissome! It's you who have been having them
seem to have a problem with that fellow, and who have had one of them
make the mistake of trampling on the wrong guys foot! Because Kaj,
Ander's cousin, isn't a guy too easy to handle once he's been stood
upon! ...”
“Oh, it's I is it!? Then what
happened to that it's you who have been pretending it's I who should
be seeming to be interested in hanging with them in the first place?!
And what happened with that they don't see it in me to ever want to
deal with them as were I of their kind, in even any kind of way!?
What happened to that it's I and not you who would've been a guy
totally unavailable for them, and even less I guy that they would
have to even think about dealing with!?”
“It happened that I am a clever guy
now, and I have fixed them so that they don't even think about the
smaller details about all of this! And if you try to tell them about
that part they will only laugh at you! Because I have an imitator of
the guy who spoke to you in their presence who make you both seem to
be ridiculous if they aught to get into details about such stuff!”
Gary looked a bit perplexed at this
statement. Thinking about it, he said: “I will pretend to be that
Danish fellow on one condition! It is that you seem to be loyal to
him and not me, from now on! If you don't do that, I will tell them
about it anyway, even if that makes them feel I as well as you are to
blame!”
Two weeks later, it seemed that Anders'
Danish friend had decided to visit Anders more frequently. To the
extent they were not seen around in the town's northern pool club
(where some of the bullies also hung around), they seemed mostly to
be in a work shop, which was watched by a dog, who could become
rather dangerous at times. To the extent there weren't any visitors
to it, the work shop hardly seemed very interesting to most people.
But for some, for example the town bullies, it seemed to be the high
nest of their potential enemies. Thereby, tension rose in the town.
For years further on, the two seeming
newcomers to town were into being at a party where they didn't know
that two of the bullies had planned to kill them. This they did
rather cleverly by setting them up with two women whom seemed a bit
curious about the two guys. It became evident, after the two had died
that to the extent the police became involved they would seem to have
been rapists. Moreover, for the families of Ted and Gary, the clever
game of seeming to be Danish persons had gone so far that the police
would suspect them all to be so fraudulent that they would be
considered enemies, perhaps, of the state! Thereby, the police was
not a solution to their problem.
So, instead, they avenged them, using
their rather smart skills of tending to seem to be others than they
were, and thereby ordering murders as if were they some Danish
people. To the extent this worked, they did manage to seem to be
innocent of trying to get at those bullies. But it did not fake that
they did not in themselves hold grudges against them and their
people. Their grudges even showed so much that they eventually seemed
to be helpers of those Danes. Thereby, although they were phony
enough to get away in the short run, both Ted and his accomplices got
nailed in the end just the same!
