On the day of the new
president’s inauguration, when we worried that he might be murdered as he
walked hand in hand with his exceptional wife among the cheering crowds, and
when so many of us were close to economic ruin in the aftermath of the bursting
of the mortgage bubble, and when Isis was still an Egyptian mother-goddess, an uncrowned
seventy-something king from a faraway country arrived in New York City with his three motherless sons to
take possession of the palace of his exile, behaving as if nothing was wrong
with the country or the world or his own story. He began to rule over his
neighborhood like a benevolent emperor, although in spite of his charming smile
and his skill at playing his 1745 Guadagnini violin he exuded a heavy, cheap
odor, the unmistakable smell of crass, despotic danger, the kind of scent that
warned us, look out for this guy, because he could order your execution at any
moment, if you’re wearing a displeasing shirt, for example, or if he wants to
sleep with your wife. The next eight years, the years of the forty-fourth
president.
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He dressed expensively but
there was a loud, animal quality to him which made one think of the Beast of
folktale, uneasy in human finery. All of us who were his neighbors were more
than a little scared of him, though he made huge, clumsy efforts to be sociable
and neighborly, waving his cane at us wildly, and insisting at inconvenient
times that people come over for cocktails. He leaned forward when standing or
walking, as if struggling constantly against a strong wind only he could feel,
bent a little from the waist, but not too much. This was a powerful man; no,
more than that a man deeply in love with the idea of himself as powerful. The
purpose of the cane seemed more decorative and expressive than functional.
When he walked in the Gardens he gave every impression of trying to be our
friend.
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