update: on non-oppositions

A couple of posts back I mentioned the District Head who had had his District Administrative Building exorcised, do you remember? It turns out that aside from its ritually offensive height and location, the building was also riddled with construction problems: like any big construction effort, especially one using public funds, there were several layers of Black Way hands grabbing at the money, gangsters scooping off the top of the pile and passing it on to other gangsters who scooped off the middle and passed it on to people who built a parking lot that you couldn’t fit cars into, an elevator that regularly trapped its passengers, and a toilet system that spit up shit. The old District Head was a bureaucrat by training and profession, and when he was told that the building was not up to code, simply delayed moving the offices there until someone had gotten around to fixing it, which never happened during his tenure. The new District Head, on the other hand, was trained as a construction engineer and has spent some of his bureaucratic work life in departments that construct things. So he actually went to the building, figured out what was wrong with it, and started fixing the problems one by one until the place was finally inhabitable. (I don’t know how much money this cost or where the money came from.) I remembered that he had also held a bunch of religious rites in preparation for moving into the building. Although she seemed doubtful about its ritual accuracy, Tiffany expressed interest in my theory that the eighty-something unclean things that the District Head had exorcised from the building included things like unparkable parking lots and shit-spitting toilets.