Kingdom This: Sports & the Decimal

A Story by Abishai100

A books-clerk is inquired of his position as Earthling-host of text-circulations for capitalism society's arms (e.g., steroids).

Alien/existential media (my first in a series of book-shop owner philosophy-shorts featuring the same identical intro or prologue followed by variances in alien/invader inquiries of Earthling complexity). Happy Thanksgiving (and thanks for reading)!

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I was working at a Western bookstore and thinking deeply about the languages of literacy for social media culture handshakes for pedestrian thoroughfare and hospitality-readings and cast myself as a sort of Earthling intelligence interpreter for my book-shop collections of human race reflection imagery for thought (Facebook-like!).

Maybe that's why I was contacted suddenly by an eerie Martian who went by the unusual name Zel and who insisted my work with book-shop languages for Earthling cleats drew the inquiring alien to my Earthling culture of Rationalism, profits, depression, energizer-IQ, network axes, and superstitions of tremors or troubles. Zel wanted to present inquisitive words of Earth race sovereignty defense-claims and offer unique views on the 'examination' of what made our Blue-Planet world both sensitized...and

ZEL: Know anything about steroids (athletics-enhancements), man?
ME: Well, I do understand/appreciate qualia for Earth-profits Hell!

ZEL: There's multiple celebrity-greats under laser (e.g., Barry Bonds).

ME: I know some of it, alien...I'm a book-circulations man for customs.

ZEL: That's my inquiry-nature line here, Earth-man (ha).

ME: I've customers in here who peruse the texts/works of the nature!

ZEL: Your Earthling passerby cast you as a 'lord of hosts' for intuition.

ME: You're right about that, Zel (sure).

ZEL: Much intrigue for Hell in your world of customs/profits/levers?

ME: Sure...much tribulations too...concerning negotiated bridges!

ZEL: Athletes who take steroids to find niche signify soul-deformity?

ME: I don't know the story of it all, Zel...but performance is prestige.

ZEL: Your capitalism intuitions reflect your hosting of customs-texts.

ME: You're right about that, Zel (sure).

ZEL: Does it intrigue you if customers have primary-view of steroids?

ME: My customers need not explain the rationale of their purchases!

ZEL: So, your haven of books concerns Earth-right of text-access.

ME: It's a library of consumerism (sure), alien.

ZEL: Capitalism has given you Earthlings veils of private-study?

ME: I'm certain you seek similar routes of our society inquiry, Zel.

ZEL: Perchance I shall resign myself to your ocean-abyss for study!

ME: Me wonders if you'll be studying steroids and sports on YouTube.

ZEL: That's good guess, man (ha).

ME: Why this inquiry about shapes of performance-enhancements?

ZEL: Perchance I'm a nihilist inquirer of capitalism's smoke, man.

ME: Selfie-like?

What did Zel want (really)? My hunch concerned the alien's special eye of 'examination' and my Earth-realm complex theories of participant-media, sports for marketing, performance for profit, prestige for paranoia, pardons of the heart, worries of civilized contracts, and social choreography of simplified strength/honor dodecahedrons (wow). I pondered the ramifications of Zel's inquiry about my books circulations post as Earth man of concierge, as I enjoyed some Black Friday leftover desserts. I wondered if Zel was something like a provocateur surgeon-journalist of capitalism's (very-special) jewelry. This was interesting (sure).