Concerning the Bodyguard

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    Does the bodyguard scream at the woman who irons his shirts? Who has inflicted a brown burn on his yellow shirt purchased expensively from Yves St. Laurent? A great brown burn just over the heart?

    Does the bodyguards principal make versation with the bodyguard, as they wait for the light to ch<mark>.</mark>ange, in the dull gray Citro?n? With the sed bodyguard, who is driving? What is the tone? Does the bodyguards principal ent on the brown young women who flock along the boulevard? On the young men? Oraffic? Has the bodyguard ever enjoyed a serious political discussion with his principal?

    Is the bodyguard frightened by the initials D.I.T.?

    Is the bodyguard frightened by the initials .D.?

    Will the bodyg..uard be relieved, today, in time to see the film he has in mind -- Emmanuelle Around the World? If the bodyguard is relieved in time to see Emmanuelle Around the World, will there be a queue for tickets? Will there be students in the queue?

    Is the bodyguard frightened by the slogan Remember 17 June? Is the bodyguard frightened by black spray paint, tall letters ghostly at the edges, on this wall, on this wall? At what level of education did the bodyguard leave school?

    Is the bodyguard suffitly well-paid? Is he paid as well as a maist? As well as a foreman? As well as an army sergeant? As well as a lieutenant? Is the Citro?n armored? Is the Mercedes armored? What is the best speed of the Mercedes?  it equal that of a BMW? A BMW motorcycle? Several BMW motorcycles?

    Does the bodyguard gauge the importance of his principal in terms of the number of bodyguards he requires? Should there not be other cars leading and following his principals car, these also filled with bodyguards? Are there sometimes such additional precautions, and does the bodyguard, at these times, feel himself part of an o of bodyguards? Is he exalted at these times? Does he wish for even more bodyguards, possibly flanking cars to the right a and a point car far, far ahead?

    After leaving teical school, in what sort of enterprises did the bodyguard engage before accepting his present post? Has he ever been in jail? For what sort of offense? Has the bodyguard acquired a fondness for his principal? Is there mutual respect? Is there mutual pt? When his principal takes tea, is the bodyguard offered tea? Beer? Who pays?

    the bodyguard addustances of professional success?

    Had he a previous t?

    Is there a new bodyguard in the group of bodyguards? Why?

    How much does pleasing matter? What services does the bodyguard provide for his principal other than the primary one? Are there services he should not be asked to perf<u></u>orm? Is he heless asked from time to time to perform such services? Does he refuse?  he refuse? Are there, in addition to the bodyguards agreed-upon pensation, tips? Of what size? On what occasions?

    In the restaurant, a good table for his principal and the distinguished gray man with whom he is ferring. Before it (betweeable with the two principals and the door), a table for the four bodyguards. What is the quality of the versatioweewo sets of bodyguards? What do they talk about? Soccer, perhaps, Holland vs. Peru, a match which they have all seen. Do they rehearse the savaging of the Dutch goalkeeper Piet Schrijvers by the bastard Peruvian? Do they discuss Schrijverss replat by the brave Jan Jongbloed, and what happened ? Has the bodyguard he differen quality between his suit and that of his principal? Between his shoes and those of his principal?

    In every part of the try, large cities and small towns, bottles of champagne have been iced, put away, reserved for a celebration, reserved for a special day. Is the bodyguard aware of this?

    Is the bodyguard tired of waking in his small room on the Calle Caspe, smoking a Royale Filtre, theing out of bed and throwing wide the curtains to discai people standing at the bus stop across the street in postures of depression? Is there on the wall of the bodyguards small room a poster showing Bruce Lee in a white robe with his feet positioned in sud-such a way, his fingers outstretched in sud-such a way? Is there a rosary made of apple beads hanging from a<tt></tt> nail? Is there a mirror whose edges have begun to craze and flake, and are there small blurrish Polaroids stuck along the left edge of the mirror, Polaroids of a woman in a dark-blue scarf and two lean children in red pants? Is there a pair of dark-blue trousers plus a long-sleeved white shirt (worn once already) hanging in the dark-brown wardrobe? Is there a color foldout of a naked young woman torn from the magazine VIR taped ihe wardrobe door? Is there a bottle of Long John Scotch atop the cheese-colored mini-refrigerator? Two-burner hotplate? Dull-green ceramic pot on the windowsill taining an uhy plant? A copy of Explication du Tai Chi, by Bruce Tegner? Does the bodyguard read the neer of his principals party? Is he persuaded by what he reads there? Does the bodyguard know which of the great blocs his try aligself with during the Sed World War? During the First World War? Does the bodyguard know which tries are the preemirading partners of his own try, at the present time?

    Seated in a restaurant with his principal, the bodyguard is served, involuntarily, turtle soup. Does he recoil, as the other eats? Why is this near-skeleton, his principal, of such importao the world that he deserves six bodyguards, two to a shift with the shifts ging every eight hours, six bodyguards of the first petence plus supplemental on occasion, two armored cars, stun grenades ready to hand uhe fro? What has he meant to the world? What are his plans?

    Is the retirement age for bodyguards calculated as it is for other citizens? Is it earlier, fifty-five, forty-five? Is there a pension? In what amount? Those young men with dark beards staring at the Mercedes, or staring at the Citro?n, who are they? Does the bodyguard pay heed to the plaints of his fellow bodyguards about the hours spent waiting outside this or that Ministry, this or that Headquarters, hours spent propped against the fenders of the Mercedes while their principal is<tt></tt> within the (secure) walls? Is the thick glass of these specially prepared vehicles thiough? Are his fellow bodyguards reliable? Is the new one reliable?

    Is the bodyguard frightened by young women of good family? Young women of good family whose handbags tain God knows what? Does the bodyguard feel that the situation is unfair? Will the son of the bodyguard, living with his mother in a city far away, himself bee a bodyguard? When the bodyguard delivers the son of his principal to the school where all of the children are delivered by bodyguards, does he stop at a grocers on the way and buy the child a peach? Does he buy himself a peach?

    Will the bodyguard, if tested, be equal to his task? Does the bodyguard know which fn  was the successful bidder for the stru of his trys nuclear reprocessing plant? Does the bodyguard know which ses of the National Banks yearly report o service have been falsified? Does the bodyguard know that the general amy of April cided with the rearrest of sixty persons? Does the bodyguard know that the new, liberalized press laws of May were a provocation? Does the bodyguard patronize a restaurant called the Crocodile? A place packed with young, loud, fat unists? Does he spill a drink, to disclose his spite? Is his gesture uood?

    Are the streets full of stilt-walkers? Stilt-walkers weaving te above the crowd i papier-maché bird heads, blad red es, whipping thirty feet of colored cloth above the heads of the crowd, miming the rape of a young female personage symbolizing his try? In the Mercedes, the bodyguard and his colleague stare at the hundreds, men and women, young and old, who move around the Mercedes, stopped for a light, as if it were a ro a river. In the rear seat, the patron is speaking into a telephone. He looks up, puts dowelephohe people pressing around the car ot be ted, there are too many of them; they ot be known, there are too many of them; they ot be predicted, they have volition. Then, an opening. The car accelerates.

    Is it the case that, on a certain m, the garbage s of the city, the garbage s of the entire try, are overflowing with empty champagtles? Which bodyguard is at fault?

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