Figure 1 – The Cyborg, Natick, MA. (c) DE Wolf 2018
I’m offering up today Figure 1 that shows a fellow I encountered recently at the local mall. I took the image with my IPhone. We may call him The Cyborg – a cube man – enhanced to be super human. The fact that he averts his eyes and looks down is meant to suggest that he is up to, or contemplating, something threatening – you know, like taking over the world and annihilating all human life on the planet. That after all is what malevolent supermen do. There is, for instance, the Borg continuum and the Incredible Hulk. As for the cubes, well, they are the building blocks, the elements of malevolence.
“But it is true that I am a wretch. I have murdered the lovely and the helpless; I have strangled the innocent as they slept and grasped to death his throat who never injured me or any other living thing. I have devoted my creator, the select specimen of all that is worthy of love and admiration among men, to misery; I have pursued him even to that irremediable ruin. There he lies, white and cold in death. You hate me, but your abhorrence cannot equal that with which I regard myself. I look on the hands which executed the deed; I think on the heart in which the imagination of it was conceived and long for the moment when these hands will meet my eyes, when that imagination will haunt my thoughts no more.”