The UPSTART GROUP
The Supreme Command has reinterpreted the Constitution so that “We the People” refers only to the UPSTART GROUP which, if you don’t know what it is, you know you don’t belong to it. The UPSTART GROUP is the management of the Workhorse which is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary. The machines in the Workhorse are run by people who are bored anyway. Everyone around here who is doing what he is supposed to, is doing it because the UPSTART GROUP supposed he should. The main offices of the UPSTART GROUP are located in a one hundred-story building underneath a dry cleaner in Spanish Harlem. I remember when it was a respectable neighborhood before the prostitutes joined the Woman’s Improvement Club, and they started having meetings in the house across the street from where the coffee shop exploded. The dry cleaner’s is used on Good Friday by day maids who get their suits done for Easter. The rest of the year it is frequented by guilty men who go there in the early morning and...