He sits
upon the bed, the latest purchase in his hands, a small gray hat embroidered
with a script-written logo across the front, the material of chenille or
similar texture.
Skunk:
I don’t know why I do it. I don’t even know what that says
reading
Skunk:
“Levi Strauss...” is that “and Co”? I don’t know what it says. I don’t know why
I do it, I wish I did.
This
spoken into the hat itself, held now over the lower half of his face
Skunk:
I dou-, the labels, there’s something where these things become, they they
transcend their, whatever it is they are, whether it’s a pair of jeans or this
hat or even just socks or shorts, they, there’s something about the logo and, I
don’t know, there’s just something about them, and having them all together, I
don’t know, maybe it’s, maybe it is a uniform thing, I don’t know.
and
elsewhere, another time,
cog:
Well, you can you can look at it this way, you have to wear clothes right? So,
he’s just wearing clothes, and the fact that they’re all the same brand name is
not, I don’t see that as being, I mean, to a degree it is
almost a pathological thing, like a disturbance but,
belching
unexpectedly
cog:
‘Scuse me I, d’you know what I mean, it’s like, everybody has to wear clothes
so what he’s done is he’s narrowed it down so that like, if he goes into town,
if he goes shopping, he can go to just one store, or, he’s narrowed down
his options so instead of going like everywhere and looking at everything,
he’s uh, he’s got that down, you know, he can just, he can go like to to one
store, or to that one section of each clothes store that has the Levi’s
products, and just pick his items from there. I don’t think it’s uh, I don’t
know, I guess I can understand people feeling like he was, disturbed
but, yah, I can understand that that, I get it, but not, I think there are
there are, of disturbances that you could have, there are far worse, I
mean much much worse. I don’t see this as a problem, I think he just likes the
clothes, and I guess it is a little unusual but, it’s like you know, it’s like
I say, you have to wear clothes.
and
elsewhere, another time,
cog:
I really think he’s, that he’s completely, in his head, in his head
he, this is only my supposing, but I think he has this, this idea that
if he wears all these Levi’s clothes, he’s somehow, that he’s somehow dressed
in a kind of armour, and that after all the shit he’s been through with his mum
and with ache1 and all of that, that if he’s, if he protects
himself with this, it’s not voodoo what is it? Something like voodoo
though, a kind of... oh fuck, what is the word I’m after here?
cog:
Superstition?
cog:
Hmmm, I’m not even sure that’s it, but that’s the idea anyway, a kind of
magical protection, but he was, he was already wearing Levi’s stuff when
sighs
cog:
Do you see what I mean? He was already wearing these clothes when
everything started to fall apart anyway, so wouldn’t it have made more sense to
stop wearing them altogether?
