Chapter Twenty Three
Artemis Hobbes
“You need to understand that there are born slaves in this world. People who go through life feeling lost without a Master or Mistress to serve. They yearn for a simple life of penance and forgiveness, freedom from decisions, a clear and simple poetics to guide their lives, service to someone wiser and stronger than themselves; someone who will give them a pat on the head when it is deserved, or a boot up their ass when it is needed.”
Many of my interviews were not difficult to arrange. By and large, the people I met with no longer had reason to hold anything back. Confessions had already been made, litigations were complete, and judgements had been delivered. They now had leisure to remember and digest the experience, to wallow in guilt, or bask in t
