The Forbidden City

Imagine the palatial halls through which Kim Jong-un walks. Probably no American has penetrated the inner sanctum more than Dennis Rodman, piercings and all. Though Kim and Trump developed an epistolary relationship (right out of a Samuel Richardson novel), they always met on neutral ground. The palaces of other contemporary tyrants, Putin, MBS (sounds perilously close to AOC no?) and Xi Jinping in Zhongnanhai which is adjacent to the Forbidden City—would be fodder for a latter day Borges. Democracy is inversely proportional to exclusivity. If you’ve ever stayed at luxurious redoubts such as the Hotel du Cap or the Connaught for which letters of introduction can be required, you understand what rarefied means. In academia think of the crypt comprising Skull and Bones at Yale, only there’s no graduation beyond the Tomb of Hotshepsut.

read "Double Exposure" by Francis Levy, The East Hampton Star

read The Wormhole Society by Francis Levy

and read The Wormhole Society: The Graphic Novel by Francis Levy and Joseph Silver

and watch Wisconsin's "Jump Around"