DONARUDO
WEEK 068 / 073 — Awake to Answer the Call
 Chapter 6 — The General · Sep 27 – Oct 3, 2016
imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner at a high tower window before dawn, phone glowing in his hand, rising aura of light flaring over the dark city
SEPTEMBER 27, 2016. THE NIGHT AFTER THE FIRST DUEL. BEFORE SUNRISE HE IS ALREADY COUNTING VICTORIES.
(Wow, did great in the debate polls (except for @CNN - which I don't watch). Thank you!)DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
“The #1 trend on Twitter right now is #TrumpWon - thank you!”
DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
extreme close-up of thumbs over a glowing phone screen in a pitch-dark bedroom, harsh light carving a heavy-browed face out of blackness, coils of ink-black smoke curling up from the screen like slow poison
BUT THE NAME SPOKEN IN THE DUEL'S FINAL MINUTE WORKS LIKE SLOW POISON. IN THE DARK BEFORE DAWN, HE RISES TO FIGHT IT.
Wow, Crooked Hillary was duped and used by my worst Miss U. Hillary floated her as an ""angel"" without checking her past, which is terrible!DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
shot from below, imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner raises a glowing phone like a drawn sword against breaking dawn, mane haloed in first light
“For those few people knocking me for tweeting at three o'clock in the morning, at least you know I will be there, awake, to answer the call!”
DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
imposing older man with a sweeping golden pompadour mane, heavy brow, small intense eyes, strong jowled jaw, long dark suit, very long red necktie flowing like a battle banner hurls a pointing arm at a crowd of featureless figures with camera lenses for faces, microphone thicket, flash bursts
Why isn't Hillary 50 points ahead? Maybe it's the email scandal, policies that spread ISIS, or calling millions of...DONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
storm of old blank documents swirling through a canyon of dark newspaper-office towers; below, a lone heavyset figure in a long dark suit walks calmly through the blizzard of pages, long tie streaming behind him
I know our complex tax laws better than anyone who has ever run for president and am the only one who can fix them. #failing@nytimesDONARUDO — @realDonaldTrump · verbatim
HE HOLDS EVERY LINE OF THE WEEK. HE DOES NOT KNOW THAT AN ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD TAPE IS ALREADY RISING TOWARD THE SURFACE.
TO BE CONTINUED →

This week in the saga

The week after the first duel is fought in the dark hours. He counts every online poll as a captured banner and crowns the count with a trending talisman, but the name Hirarī spoke in the duel's last minute drags him to the phone before dawn, and when the realm mocks the hour he turns even that into doctrine: awake, always, to answer the call. When the Times unseals his old tax papers, he answers as the one man who knows the labyrinth from inside.