112813 #gull #fox #farmer The real work. It's funny. Is done in spite of what you think of as the real work, and yet it wouldn't happen without the seemingly empty exercise. You burn off a byproduct that must masquerade, willing suspension, as a product. This could as easily be a farmer as a gull or fox, or then again it could be anything else. That's the point. If I'm pretending I don't know, then everything depends, or possibly nothing, on the verisimilitude of that performance.