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LAW 32

PLAY TO PEOPLE'S FANTASIES

If you look the part people will tend to believe. If you are broke look rich or comfortable at least and people won't know what you really are. If you are a woman you shouldn't be walking the streets all decked out with no car. At least cab it. If you are a man at least cab it if you are not riding the passenger seat. If you do have it, be modest about it. Don't wave steak in front of hungry dogs. They'll by pass the steak and eat you. If you look like money, people will spend money on you because they are not giving it to you they are hanging with you. The more you can play your part, and what I mean by that is make your that if you are new money make sure you carry yourself in all elements like your old money.

Sometimes, people want someone, sometimes people want to believe in something even if it is a lie. Sometimes people refuse to believe that their problems have stemmed from their own misdeeds and stupidity. It's always got to be someone else's fault. The truth is too ugly and too painful for them. Fantasy removes the ugliness, the pain. Fantasy can consume an individual. Fantasy can get a person caught up and imprison.

Fantasy: "A sudden transformation will bring a total change in one's fortunes, bypassing work, luck, self-sacrifice, and time in one fantastic stroke.

Reality: Change is slow and gradual. It requires hard work, a bit of luck, a fair amount of self sacrifice and a lot of patience. Promise gives hope. From poor to rich, sickness to health, misery to ecstasy.

Fantasy: We can enter a totally new world with different codes and the promise of adventure.

Reality: The social realm has hard-set codes and boundaries. We understand these limits and know that we have to move within the same familiar circles, day in and day out.

Physical contact destroys fantasy. Strange, exotic and erotic things fuel fantasy.

Fantasy: People can come together in a mystical union of souls.

Reality: Society is fragmented and full of conflict

Fantasy: A sudden reversal of this intolerable fact.

Reality: Death. The dead cannot be brought back, the past cannot be changed.

The key to fantasy is no contact. The imagination. Keeping distance. Keep them wanting. Create a mirage. Keep it vague. Keep It Simple. However, you must be care playing the fantasy game. Because fantasy is a game. It can rile emotions. Unpredictable emotions and invoke feelings. Remember, fantasy is the look but don't touch. Once you make contact you destroy it.

"The moon. Unattainable, always changing shape, disappearing and reappearing. We look at it, imagine, wonder, and pine-never familiar, continuous provoker of dreams. Do not offer the obvious. Promise the moon."

"A lie is an allurement, a fabrication, that can be embellished into a fantasy. It can be clothed in the raiments of a mystic conception. Truth is cold, sober fact, not so comfortable to absorb. A lie is more palatable. The most detested person in the world is the one who always tells the truth, who never romances...I found it far more interesting and profitable to romance than to tell the truth. (Joseph Weil, a.k.a. "The Yellow Kid," 1875-1976)"