Imaginationings; Director’s Cut, Part 2

To all my friends and family, old and new. (They’d rather I not mention them in this context.)

Narrator’s description of a suspect who worked at a car dealership: “He was a salesman; but he wasn’t selling cars.” ―“While He Was Sleeping.” Dateline: Secrets Uncovered, Season 10, episode 2, NBCUniversal, 2021

Said Car

Preceded, by his reckoning, by 248 years of “the American experiment,” 5,000 years of recorded human history, and the six millions or so years it has taken to evolve (or so the scientists say) from ape-like creatures swinging through trees to Homo sapiens swinging at each other over the last of some hard-to-find item on sale in some crowded shopping mall on some Black Friday with some Christmas song playing in the background and what child is this running at a “survival of the fittest” pace from this pre-holiday tradition in search of safety, said child making a “natural selection” under the circumstances and lending a wee bit of credibility to the theory, Him again, our principal character and leading man, loose in the streets but self-restrained ...