things move around

or is he?

It’s a question well worth asking, and as such, it’s been asked by my Wall. Essentially, we can break it down into two conundra:

1. David Mamet is living, and;
2. David Mamet is a god.

Let us deal with the propositia in order of their posteriority. Is David Mamet living? Yes, say the Mahmetists - a sect which has become fecund in recent years, putting down roots in locales as far flung as Hammersmith and Ealing. Yes, Mamhamet lives. He walketh among us, even now. He strideth forth, and loth of other worth ending in ‘th.’ But they would say that. Mamamamaetithits - what would you expect? There is, however, no evidence that David Mamet is not living. Let us then assume that he liveth, yet he liveth not, as hith followerth would have it, or, in ordinary speak, he is Elvis.

Is David Mamet a god? This depends on how we define the concept of  ”David Mamet.” There are certain characteristics of a “god” which we may take as standard - omnipotence, omniscience, long beard - but the idea of “David Mamet” can have wildly differing connotations, depending on whether one was raised in one place - Yorkshire, Shropshire, or anywhere normal that ends in -shire - or London. So - what is David Mamet? I suppose the first thing Mamet is is a pseudophone for Yahweh. He does actually sound like god, let’s agree on that. And that’s leaving aside the whole ordinary-bloke hero worship of “David” - I mean, as if the midget with the sling is going to have such a mundane name. Come on. He’d be called Brahmaputra or Doctor Doom, or Ishtar, or such. Somebody give Christianity a clue! But to return to David Mamet - what is he? Is he man, is he mam, is he may, is he a goatee with screenplay ability? I fear I must leave this for the Fates to decree.

And so fare thee well, what man what met.