the president and mymanian

The spy from the forgotten country has been following the President. Everybody knows this, but no one is concerned.

Bring me MyManiac, the President says to an aide.

The spy -- we "knew" about him, but I noticed him one July morning. We were running beside the President who was running for reasons of health. Across the street, in aviator sunglasses and an oversizes London Fog, was a slight man keeping pace; nonchalantly, if that's possible.

The Cheif Cartographer explains to the President that the latest revisions to the world are going, for the most part, well. The President nods and agrees.

Mymanian is attached to an attaché without portfolio -- at large in a row of diplomatic homes. the attaché is between alleigences. Mymanian is watching the President, he reports to no one.

The Cheif Cartographer tugs at his ear -- there's something missing from the Difficult Region. Because of the difficulty, he'd never paid much attention and now he is convinced that there may be something missing.

Mymanian lunches with beautful women and carries a Derringer tucked in his sock. We have interviewed some of the beautiful women -- they give us little. Except that Mymanian is boorish and a drunk we have little in the way of motive. We know the deringer is not loaded.

Where's MyManiac? The game's on. The President and the spy have become close. We don't know how concerned to be. The spy is unaffiliated. The President is disinterested. Like a buddha he reclines behid the Rosevelt desk and greets visitors. At 4:30 he sips soda water with top aides looking on, then he retires to the residence.

The President's father called wednesday to call him a dumb-fuck. He said,."Mr. President you are a dumb-fuck." The secretary logged the call with an asterisk. The asterisk means something, but the secretary won't say what. The President asks about the asterisk and the secretary says nothing.

Mymanian plays golf with the President's father. He's a hanger-on and a name dropper. The President's father does not care for the spy's company.