London’s Buckingham Palace being the mainstream of the Monarchy, since the Aristocracy’s vanquished time, took a Mary Queen of Scots U turn, to the Monarchy’s summer castle in Scotland. Edinborough to be exact, the idyllic summer home of Queen Elizabeth, Mary’s cousin, Mary capitulating her Crown to her blood , during those feudal yesterdays of time being vanquished..
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Bette Davis, an actress hailing from Littleton, New HampshireWhite Mountains, was screen tested by Warner Brothers, inidentifying with the temperamental needs in her feminine ruling “Essex” court.. The dynasty’s inner circle not only had to grace the lady’s whims to control the liberties the once serflike chains the Magna Carte vanquished into eternity.
A brave new world not to mimic Aldous Huxley’s “title”. Or Ray Stark’s author. Those Hollywood LSD capers smacking of Archie Leach (Cary Grant) Brian Ahern, Shangrila’s Ronald Coleman, David Niven Herbert Marshall, Basil Rathbone’s“Sherlock Holmes”, while improvising o his violin..
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In this swarming midst, a denizen from the Big Apple’s Brooklyn, scribbled a response to Buckingham Palace’sinvitation to share a commemorative Queen Elizabeth event, opening a World War 2 museum Duxford Air Museum, outside Lake en heath RAF-USAF and Mendenhall RAF Base.
The 11 day journey captured in The Flying Philosopher’s “God’s Way”, the WW2 RAF Winston Churchill, his mother born in Brooklyn Heights and our fateful British Rail excursion to Edinborough, Scotland.
The birth place of James Bond 007 and “The Strange Case ofDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde’s creator Robert Louis Stevenson.
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So the narrative may begin its transcript here in Scotland as the Robert Louis Stevenson “Strange case….” dissects and explores the masked three decades of the cream cheese bandit and his paranoia quest for more and more “cream cheese Philadelphia” packets from the supermarket refrigerated shelves.
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An encounter in a meat doctor’s office some decades after the Queen opened the Duxford RAF World War 2 Museum outside Lake en heath RAF-UAF base, the Edinborough cradle of Stevenson’s “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” was baptized….
Charlie Masterson, the coach of Columbia University’s tennis team wanted the bandit to come home. “Remember those grueling indoor matches we played in the Armory. Com’ back to the Big Apple..”
The bandit’s paranoia as a bully and tormentor erupted when our own consciousness recognized his need to get his ownrevenge and act together in the process of growing up. The family clan “pic”, standing next to Uncle Joe, instead of his father, ”the name detective”.
Tormenting the weaker younger kids on those Brooklyn streets,plaguing his own parents but the cream cheese bandit rejectedany support or psychoanalysis to clarify his soul, brain neurons and ego trip across the Continent to Treasure Island...
His need to bully and dominate, to be translated into the game of tennis where “if in doubt, cal it out” was the password to victory on the symbolic tennis court. “What’s playing out?”
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Here then was the transition from the tough competitive streets of Brooklyn: Murder, Inc of Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Segal, Al “Bummy” Davis to the tennis courts of the armories, public parks and Colleges to those refrigerated supermarket shelves of Philadelphia cream cheese packets in Los Angeles, California.
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Disarming ladies of the day, one wearing a wig as her own idiom to disguise her image, soon evolved into pushing uppers and downers in his Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde paranoia The competitive tennis match angst had become a cover up for Dr. Jekyll Mr. Hyde transformative other self, as the day becomesnight.
Being his own victim, the cream cheese bandit couldn’t see through his myopia. His ego trip of a double identity, faking his rogue duality , undermining his 30 year retirement package with his tennis playing Recreation and Parks.
Not having to come to grips with Robert Louis Stevenson’sinterior dialogue “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde”, his misbegotten metamorphosis of his own withered bullying, he perishing before his pension impacted..
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Those East 4th Streets between Avenue P and Kings Highway,indelibly scoring in those blizzard like I.D’s “Dr. Jekyll becoming Mr. Hyde”.
January 25, 2015 The City that never sleeps.
