I was fighting fascism with the power of love and
kindness and just really getting my ass handed to me. A total bloodbath. The
referee would have stepped in by now but they had knocked him out with a steel
chair. The only others watching were either fascists themselves or the people
trying to fight fascism with the power of love and kindness and they weren’t
having a great go of it either. I kept trying to explain in between haymakers
that we were better than this and on top of that it wasn’t likely to be ruled
on favorably as far as the courts. None of it helped. I was on my knees now
bleeding profusely from the mouth and nose. It spilled out of me onto the snow
in a pattern that if you sort of squinted at it from the right vantage looked
like a cartoon heart. See that I pointed. Look how beautiful the world can be I
tried to say through my broken teeth. Alright well now he was pulling out a
gun. I didn’t think we were allowed do that.
- The Rules, Luke O'Neil