Juan's past

Andreanne 2022-03-21 09:03:15

My name is Juan, yes, I am the most handsome cowboy in the entire western Mexico. I take my sons to live by blocking the road. When waiting for "guests", my biggest hobby is to pee to feed the ants on the tree. If there are no guests for a long time or there are no female guests, I will also use a pistol to breed ants. This method is not as thorough as peeing, but it is more comfortable than peeing.

For my "guests", I will not harm their lives, if the "guests" do not resist. My purpose is only to make money, and I am not afraid of their retaliation, because I have no idea where I and my sons will be tomorrow. But I've always had a dream of going to the big city of Mesa Verde and doing a big job at the bank, so that my sons and I can live happily ever after without the extreme instability of income that we have now, and then I did. The thick iron door was opened, but there was no money inside.

I always knew I was a long way from this dream of mine until I met John (I didn't know his name was Sean until after John died), if I hadn't met him I might have lived my whole life in Westworld and become the famous Westworld Overlord, or die heroically in the next robbery, and my sons make a name for me, always I must be the best man in the whole West. But John made me the best man in all of Mexico at the cost of my sons and John's life. If I had a choice, I would choose not to meet John, and I would be content to be the king of the west, even an ordinary life.

On the fifth day after meeting John, from 12:18 to 12:23 at noon, these five minutes were the five minutes closest to my dream, and in the last fifteen seconds of the twenty-three minutes, John gave me The two detonators exploded, blowing up a heavy iron door, behind the iron door a bright light, after these fifteen seconds passed, I became the leader of the revolutionaries, and my ideals were getting farther and farther away from me , and then disappeared. But I didn't know what a revolution was until I was on my way to guerrilla, and revolution was like John using me as an illiterate idiot to rebel against the government to make himself the new government, and we illiterate idiots If you don't sacrifice in the revolution, you will continue to be a fool in the revolution. The more I thought about it, the more angry I became, so I scolded John severely, and John threw the book in his hand into the mud. But it wasn't until later that John tried to save me on his motorcycle, and I was sure that John really didn't pick up the book, but the person who picked it up killed John. I hold John's body and think I seem to have become a literate person, I still don't fucking understand the revolution, I just want to go to America with John to live a life without machine gun detonators, why did I kill the government leader? Why at the end of the revolution, I have no relatives and just become a general in Mexico? What is this revolution for? Although I now have a wife and children, I am also very happy.

I deliberately stopped to take a sip of water and gave the audience a chance to give a standing ovation, but after I put down the glass, the venue was still silent. It wasn't until I finished my closing remarks that there was polite applause.

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Extended Reading
  • Selina 2022-03-16 09:01:08

    Do we remember the reasons for joining the revolution in the first place? Why is the memory of the past now only unbearable? After such a long time, the passion at that time has already been smoothed out. Is the path chosen back then worth it? When John died, he found the answer. Even if he only had that time in his life full of passion, happiness and dreams, at least he was happy. For the beauty of those years, everything he lost and paid was worth it.

  • Cletus 2022-03-22 09:02:50

    A revolution is not a dinner party. A revolution is bloodshed. It is the overthrow of one class by another. "When I first picked up the bomb I trusted everyone, now I only trust the bomb".

Duck, You Sucker! quotes

  • Priest: Even animals can be tame and harmless. Personally, I consider them unfortunate brutes.

  • Landowner on stagecoach: Hey, you. You know who your father was? Hm?

    [Juan, playing dumb, shakes his head]

    Landowner on stagecoach: Heh. Do you know at least how old you are? Hm?

    [Juan shrugs]

    Landowner on stagecoach: He doesn't know. Do you know... how many kids you have, eh? Do you know... how many kids your mother had?

    [chuckles]

    Landowner on stagecoach: He doesn't know anything, you see? And it was to benefit scum like this that the Agrarian Reform was imposed. And that ass Madero wanted to give the government, and *our land*... to idiots like this.

    Priest: We are all pawns in the hands of Almighty God. Fortunately, Divine Providence has disposed of that rash individual Madero.

    Landowner on stagecoach: My dear Monsignor, let us be realistic. What you choose to call Providence... I call General Huerta. He put the peasants in their place.

    Notary on Stagecoach: Which is the best place for animals, because that's what they are... animals.