Mannequin's Mercury

Narrated 'claim' of a world-man and interested Homeland writer whose 'magical' encounter with a 'talking' mannequin creates the 'image' of mind-readings (for therapy).

A 'deceptively-complex' adaptation of that iconic capitalism-consciousness reflective Big-'80s film Mannequin (Michael Gottlieb), which I think you'll like, 

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I'd been working in the post-9/11 era Homeland (America) with special capitalism-race 'chess' defenses for treasure-motions securities/confidence for a more 'robust' feeling concerning globalism/traffic assurances rhetoric facilitating commerce 'bridge' games to peace (for all). This offered me that extra credit chance to create social-media re-presentations of all this traffic-securities IQ flowery (for the Ego).

My name's Amlan Satan, and this work with capitalism-IQ and traffic-net activity made me feel like a 'James Bond' in this character world of great 'incomplete distances' to globe-traffic confidence storyboards, complicated by terrorism/piracy. I started to feel like a 'cartoon character' in this problem world of social-media reflective consumerism/pedestrian activity-shares (and materialism!).

Capitalism requires hospitality-IQ and the 'chess' of new millennium traffic-consumerism defense for confidence requires special 'James Bond' imagination and everyday-life ideology, reflecting our windows-access culture of goods/treasures shares for customs and/or magic. This is all normal, and I felt normal, and I made myself-egg-curry brunches on Sundays and posted stories about Easter-safety on social-media. However, something was missing (but what?)!

I found a clue to my cyber-storytelling quest, and it was a 'fantastic' 2005 media-broadcast age college-athletics (basketball!) event featuring a micro-rivalry conference 'showcase' between Duke Blue-Devils' 3-pt. wizard-shooter (JJ Redick) and Wake Forest Demon-Deacons' court-marshal of athletics (Chris Paul), who'd eventually become pro-level (basketball!) teammates in sunny LA (wow). Well, this Duke-Forest (Redick/Paul) 'chess-stalemate' diagram of nearly perfect talent/breakout 'equivalence(s)' which resulted in a close-scoreline heartbreak loss for Duke but a 'pronounced' Duke-Redick 3-pt. 'magic-show' offered me a new 'sportsmanship-education prize-ticket' trophy-image for a complementary superstitions storyboard for my cyber-presentation about that mysterious 'quality' of 'chance' in measuring competition/teamwork symbolic of capitalism-race energizer snowflakes (for readings!).

Where would this 'diagram' examination of sportsmanship-drawn media-activity for college-basketball and 'trophy' imagination/rhetoric for capitalism-race 'confidence' lead my story-writing to in this post-9/11 era Homeland (America) of great 'matrix' labor(s)? I was in a New England shoppers' complex path when I came across a mall-mannequin who (perhaps) 'shocked' me into thinking that this magic-road of capitalism-race 'chess' required a new 'brand' of materialism-photography (for the Ego).

ESMERELDA: Greetings, Amlan Satan!

SATAN (Me): I can hear you...you're alive!

ESMERELDA: My name's Esmerelda ('Ezzy').

SATAN: Is this real...or am I insane (hmm)?
EZZY: Don't doubt your inner-mind, Prince Satan.

SATAN: What's this for (if you are 'really' conferring with me about reality)?

EZZY: I know you're working on a sports/capitalism 'matrix' diagram.

SATAN: Complements my 'real-life' capitalism-defense(s) work, um, Ezzy.

EZZY: Cool...what did you find, Amlan?
SATAN: How do you know all this (if you're not in my head)?

EZZY: I'm a 'faerie-spirit' and you need not worry about your own doubts!

SATAN: Alright.

EZZY: What did you find?
SATAN: Well, let's see, I found some chess-stalemate (Redick/Paul) magic.

EZZY: Sportsmanship for capitalism 'matrix' risk/reward/energizers?

SATAN: Right!
EZZY: Well...what else did you find?
SATAN: Well, Duke lost the close-score game, but Redick's magic-act glowed.

EZZY: Cool.

SATAN: There's this sort of 'chance' to capitalism-race materialism dynamics.

EZZY: That's (precisely) why I'm whispering to you...about Romanticism!

SATAN: The 'romance' of risk/chance for media/traffic optimism...and sanity?

EZZY: Correct, darling.

SATAN: Let's see...you're gorgeous...I'm lonely...this sounds cool...I can work.

EZZY: Finish your work...and you may receive a 'love-gift' of magic (from me).

SATAN: Well, wow, I guess I've been idling in some laziness; I need photo-matter.

What could I say besides, "I've been struck by the heavens/lightning"? I went to my writing with greater ardor, and thought about my Duke/Forest chess-stalemate capitalism-media 'symbolism' storyboard (for traffic-stat) and showed 'Ezzy' my end-results and she promised me she'd marry me. Was this the American Dream? I've accounted for this very unusual Earth 'faerie-tale' in this time-capsule journal-write which I'm burying in my backyard (New England) alongside a chess-comic so that future students/poets might consider why my time/era was a 'good' deal about wrought superstitions...for that 'shape' of capitalism-race materialism (ha).

Years later, Ezzy and I got married. She became a 'real woman' and I kept her secret. I've concluded she's truly a faerie-spirit of the heavens/Earth and became my special (private) 'Aphrodite' or 'Galatea' of wrought superstitions-metaphysics for capitalism-race storyboards, helping me blend my 'James Bond' life with more 'meaningful' social-magic diagrams of everyday/traffic activity (for shares/education).

EZZY: Our love is all chance, Amlan Satan.

SATAN: True...maybe I'll make a killer-robot-doll comic-write about fear!

EZZY: There's no fear...when there's 'true' superstition(s), no?
SATAN: Sure, sure, Ezzy; I think (maybe) we've found a 'cinema' chemistry.

"Doing well is the result of doing good. That's what capitalism is all about" (Ralph Waldo Emerson). 

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"Money is everything" (Ecclesiastes)