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TRIO Thirty-five: Thomas Hart

G21 Staff Writer

Interview with The Man

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We have known for decades that there is one overweaning and omniscent personality at the center of our international corporate culture. Utilizing the tenets of Einstein's Theory of Relativity, having forged for himself a Kissingerian existence which defies the limitations of time, space and international borders, this unique personality as doffed the shackles which confine the average corporate citizens, like ourselves. Rather he defines and constantly refines the very nature and processes of corporate culture. A master of Tricknology, a speculator in international currencies and, thus, the builder(Germany) and destroyer(Indonesia) of nations, this individual we have come to know by various appellations and titles, but none so enduring and ubiquitous as that of...

THE MAN

ON SPECIAL ASSIGNMENT, G21 correspondent Thomas Hart, searching doggedly through the capitals of the world and it backwaters, brings you, our Loyal Readers, the type of journalistic coup you have come to expect from The World's Magazine: Thomas Hart f2f with The Man.

AUSTIN - The Man does not answer his own e-mails. He has a team of approximately forty corporate drones who work around the clock to do that for him. They provide The Man with daily condensations of the electronic mail, just as there are other drones who monitor currrency and stock markets, his snail mail, telephone calls, satellite communications, the world's newspapers and wire services.

G21 has learned that The Man even has corporate drones dedicated to giving him the details of every session of every legislative body on earth. Nothing occurs which is too trivial or too esoteric to escape the notice of The Man.

I received a response e-mail from one of the minor factotums of One Corporation inviting me to meet The Man at Dallas/Fort Worth International, where The Man's private Concorde would be refueling en route to Los Angeles.

The Man has already arranged for my return flight to Austin.

(I have tell ya'll, at this point I decided that what was one of our Editor's most wacky ideas seemed like the plum assignment of my time here at the G21.)

We have all certainly heard about the many amenities of Air Force One, and the floating party that is John Travolta's private jet, but take it from This Reporter, Pilgrims, those are nothing compared to the Luxury-Liner-of-the-Sky which is The Man's Concorde! Telephone connections, satellite dishes, modem hook-ups for your laptop, haute cuisine, stewards and stewardesses keeping you refueled from the wet-bar, stock tickers, live feeds from CNN, manicure and pedicure and stress-massage on demand, five or six psychic readers, dancing girls, flame-eaters and mendicants, Ladies of Whenever You are Ready --- I thought I was like to die!

I did not let on, of course.

I am a journalist and, therefore, world-weary and jaded. (Heh-heh-Heh!)

The factotum who had arranged the interview gave me a Waiver to sign, affirming that G21 would not publish any proprietary information which might be revealed during the course of my being aboard the One Corporation jet, or during my interview with The Man.

After I had signed, he ushered me from the Guest area of the plane up to The Man's private offices.


G21: Thank you for granting this interview. A lot has been said about how "Everybody ends up workin' for The Man," that "The Man took my house," and other such accusations. How do you feel about this?

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