The Chaos Pirate

  We all assembled on the beach, the boy gravely donned and inflated the garment, and amidst roars of laughter from his brothers, entered the water. The chill and the vapor taken together told a poor tale of the island. The dusk had come nigh hand completely, and as I opened out the cleft between the two peaks, I became aware of a wavering glow against the sky, where, as I judged, the man of the island was cooking his supper before a roaring fire. Not a single detail was visible.  He struggles, usually alone, with various goals, such as determining for which side of the iron curtain the village functions, if either; remaining defiant to its imposed authority; concocting his own plans for escape; learning all he can about the village; and subverting its operation. Under these dark waters there stretched the bank of shellfish, an inexhaustible field of pearls more than twenty miles long.  So intensely still was it, and so perfectly transparent was the surface of the deep, t...

 Dude, how long wilt thou look on? Rescue my soul from their destructions, my darling from the lions. Behold, I was shapen in iniquity; and in sin did my mother conceive me. I am thine, save me: for I have sought thy precepts. Praise ye the dude. Now also when I am old and greyheaded, o goodness, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. The dude is my shepherd; I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: he leadeth me beside the still waters. Now also when I am old and greyheaded, o goodness, forsake me not; until I have shewed thy strength unto this generation, and thy power to every one that is to come. Yowsah. The dude that made heaven and earth bless thee out of Washington D.C... Praise ye the dude. O goodness, the proud are risen against me, and the assemblies of violent men have sought after my soul; and have not set thee before them. And thy righteousness in the land of forgetfulness?...