Calling It a Day

BY PAUL FORD

The Surrender to the Fools was effected with mimimum pomp - to their sheerest miff for they had arrived in fool regalia: gowns and suits and hoods and badges, bright chains of office. Instead their capitulators gave wry, exhausted speeches...out of order, off in pace but the snapped-back fools smiled grandly through them all, surrounding each whistling irony and wish- ing everybody all the best elsewhere, knowing there's no such place.

The Surrender to the Fools was effected with mimimum pomp - to their sheerest miff for they had arrived in fool regalia: gowns and suits and hoods and badges, bright chains of office. Instead

their capitulators gave wry, exhausted speeches...out of order, off in pace but the snapped-back fools smiled grandly through

them all, surrounding each whistling irony and wish- ing everybody all the best elsewhere, knowing there's no such place.