Rimbaud’s Headband
Wellington Leg: The Literary Faire resumes this weekend at the Historic Rotunda although city crews have dug enormous trenches along The Boulevard of Broken Seams in a last ditch effort to restore power to the Centre. Hizzoner was forced to read by candlelight and was reported to be delighted by the unexpected arrival of Moderne Hairpieces by French designer Jean-Claude. After modeling several of Jean-Claude’s creations, Hizzoner was whisked by water taxi to the Faire’s Tent of the Stars: he mingled freely with the brightest lights of the literary firmament, capturing the coveted headband Arthur Rimbaud wore in the earl’s epic masterpiece RIMBAUD’S HEADBAND.
Le Soir described the novel as “gut wrenching,” while Bild am Sonntag, angry about Germany’s impending break-up, remarked that, “Wellington Leg is a small towne with an incredible supply of bad writers.” In fact, Wellington Leg is suffering through a shortage of bad writing, according to analyst Eugenia Phaeton. Eugenia has poured through a number of Annual Reports remarking on the “remarkable level of imagination and glittering prose,” she found therein.
The Literary Prize is rumored to be up for grabs this year since the award involves tests of physical strength as well as quantitative hedge fund modeling: one story arc has intersected the apex of the Laffer Curve creating short term liquidity problems. It’s not clear if Hizzoner’s hairpiece is an ethics violation since it represents a gift from a foreign power. A group of people in powdery wigs staged a brief protest before the Flying Squad intervened; in a documented case of magical realism the protesters vanished after questioning leaving only their wigs behind.
The Literary Faire runs through October. H.Hesse reporting.