"I was born for the world"

[Spartacus]

Arnold Schwarzenneger
excerpted form "Boomerang" by Michael Lewis

 

[Spartacus]

At 7 oclockone summer morning I pedaled a 5K titanium frame mountian bike rented in anxiety the previous evening down the Santa Monica beach road to the corner where Arnold Schwarzenegger had asked me to meet him. He turned up right on time, driving a black Cadillac SUV with a handful of crappy old jalopy bikes racked to the back. I wore the closet I could find to actual bicycle gear; he wore a green fleece, shorts, and a soft beige slipperlike shoes that suggested both
a surprising indifference to his own appearance

and a security in his own manhood

 

[Spartacus]

He hauls a bike off the back of the car, hops on, and takes off down an already busy Ocean Avenue. He wears no bike helmet, runs red lights, and rips past DO NOT ENTER signs without seeming to notice them, annd up one-way streets. When he wants to cross three lanes of fast traffic he doesn't so much as galnze over his shoulder but just sticks his hand out and follows it, assuming that whatever follows will stop. His bike has at least 10 speeds but he has but two: zero, and pedaling as fast as he can. Inside half a mile he's moving fast enough that wind-induced tears course down his cheeks

 

[wootoom]

At 7 oclockone summer morning I pedaled a 5K titanium frame mountian bike rented in anxiety the previous evening down the Santa Monica beach road to the corner where Arnold Schwarzenegger had asked me to meet him. He turned up right on time, driving a black Cadillac SUV with a handful of crappy old jalopy bikes racked to the back. I wore the closet I could find to actual bicycle gear; he wore a green fleece, shorts, and a soft beige slipperlike shoes that suggested both
a surprising indifference to his own appearance

and a security in his own manhood

Did you tell him to chill out dickwad?

 

[Spartacus]

He's got to be one of the world's most trecognizable people,
but he doesn't appear to worry thast anyone will recognizehim
and no one does
It may be that people who get out of bed by dawn to jog and Rollerblade and race-walk are too interested in what they are doing to break their trance
(high superqt ed)
Or it may be that's he's taking them by surprise
He has no entouage,
not even a bodyguard.
His economic advisor,
David Crane, and his media advisor,
Adam Menddelsohn,
who came alonf for the just because it sounded fun,
are now somewhere far behind him.

 

[Spartacus]

Did you tell him to chill out dickwad?

learn to read

 

[wootoom]

learn to read

dont fucking tell me what to do

 

[Spartacus]

ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION WOULD THINK, tHAT GUY MIGHT LOOK LIKE aRNOLD BUT IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE aRNOLD BECAUSE aRNOLD WOULD NEVER BE OUT ALONE ON A BIKE AT 7 am
TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE
iT ISN'T UNTIL HE HIS FORCED TO STOP AT A RED LIGHT THAT HE MAKES MEANINGFUL CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC.
a WOMAN PUSHING A BABY STROLLER AND TALKING ON A CELL PHONE CROSSES THE STREET RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM,
AND DOEAS A DOUBLE TAKE. "oh...MY...gOD," SHE GASPS INTO HER PHONE.
"iT'S bILL cLINTON!"
sHE'S NOT TEN FEET AWAY BUT SHE KEEPS TALKING TO THE PHONE.
"i'M HERE WITH bILL cLINTON."
"iT'S ONE OF THOSE GUYS WHO HAS A SEX SCANDAL."
SAYS aRNOLD, SMILING
"wAIT..WAIT." SAYS THE WOMAN TO HER PHONE.
"mAYBE IT'S NOT bILL cLINTON."
bEFORE SHE CAN MAKE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION
THE Light is green
an d we're off

 

[Spartacus]

dont fucking tell me what to do

I don't
not to you or anyone
you sick fuck

 

[Spartacus]

if you would allow me to finish
and it's quite apparent I didn't cut and paste
Arnold makes sense
but no

 

[wootoom]

sorry

 

[Spartacus]

His life has been a series of carefully staged experincies. He himself has no staged presentation of it, however.
He is fresh,alive and improvisational:
I'm not sure even he knows what he will do next.
He's not exactyl humble, but then if I had lived the life he's lived I'm not sure I would be, either,
though I might try to fake humility more often than he does,
which is roughly never.

 

[Spartacus]

What save him from self-absorption, is a geniuse lack of interest in personal reflection.
He lives the same way he rides his bike,
payinf far more attention to what's ahead that what's behind

 

[Spartacus]

In office , he kept no journal of any sort.
I fine it amazing, but he now says he didn't so much as scribble little notes that might ne later used to reconstruct his experince and his fellings about it.

 

[Spartacus]

"Why woul;d I do that?"
he says
"It's kind of like you come home and your wife asks about your day.
"I've done it once and I don't want to do it again"
What he wanted to do after a long day of being governor,
more or less,
was to lift weights.

 

[Spartacus]

to be continued

 

[Spartacus]

sorry

hang in there
I have a message(s)
I admit my delivery is chaotic

 

[Spartacus]

ANYONE PAYING ATTENTION WOULD THINK, tHAT GUY MIGHT LOOK LIKE aRNOLD BUT IT CAN'T POSSIBLY BE aRNOLD BECAUSE aRNOLD WOULD NEVER BE OUT ALONE ON A BIKE AT 7 am
TRYING TO COMMIT SUICIDE
iT ISN'T UNTIL HE HIS FORCED TO STOP AT A RED LIGHT THAT HE MAKES MEANINGFUL CONTACT WITH THE PUBLIC.
a WOMAN PUSHING A BABY STROLLER AND TALKING ON A CELL PHONE CROSSES THE STREET RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM,
AND DOEAS A DOUBLE TAKE. "oh...MY...gOD," SHE GASPS INTO HER PHONE.
"iT'S bILL cLINTON!"
sHE'S NOT TEN FEET AWAY BUT SHE KEEPS TALKING TO THE PHONE.
"i'M HERE WITH bILL cLINTON."
"iT'S ONE OF THOSE GUYS WHO HAS A SEX SCANDAL."
SAYS aRNOLD, SMILING
"wAIT..WAIT." SAYS THE WOMAN TO HER PHONE.
"mAYBE IT'S NOT bILL cLINTON."
bEFORE SHE CAN MAKE A POSITIVE IDENTIFICATION
THE Light is green
an d we're off

I just now got that passage myself
Arnold speaks truthfully
Clinton lies to you