David Foster Wallace, Kafka and a Mexican Bat mobile



Imagine now, the same parameters of the mouse story set on a Mexican scenario. Walls, corner, 43 mice, a bat mobile and a small plant on a pot. Cat enters the scene, tells the mice the joke and eats them up. After the cat burps and cleans his whiskers, it suddenly disappears, leaving a bloody trail behind. The small, insignificant plant turned out to be carnivorous.

What about the bat mobile? Well, it's actually the kafkian part of the story that sparked this post. Valentín González of the Citizen Movement Party is calling this campaign "Bat mobile in Movement". MexiGotham City is full of crime and in needs of a hero, Valentín (the brave one) emerges from his black car unto the Neza District to fight corruption and the villains.

I can give him several addresses where he could go in order to save time and effort invested on busting petty crime in Neza... Would he knock on the door of several generals in the Tlatlaya case? Would he scale the wall to arrest federal police commanders in Apatzingán and put them into jail? Or to make it even closer to the Mexican reality, would he dare to plan a secret assignment, all dressed up in ninja style and in a Mission: Impossible scene, get the leader of some cartel out of jail and maybe re-incarcerate him again in a safer prison where he can't actually move out and about after dark with permission of the warden?

Das ist komisch, truly so.

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