“A German cannot be killed even by mistake – the Zeitungsmensch maintained – and it is proof of extreme cowardice to kill a man who is not ready for death”.
On the other hand, the subsimulacrum people received the invectives with extreme coolness. Tourist operators pointed out that in a homicide the one who has everything to lose is the dead. For those who inhabit that environment, on the contrary, it may mean curiosity, morbidity, imagination. Money.
The police, on orders from the monetary authorities, dragged the body towards home. Some paid him honors, some celebrated him, others could not remember his face, or who he was. A child used the photograph of the dead man to clean up a Coca Cola spill, while his mother cursed because of her son’s lack of sensitivity in treating his clean clothes.
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