Freerice.com & The Ambassadors

The Ambassadors

In the paper of record sometimes remembered for its role in “starting a real,

actual war” by publishing false reports in the words of a friend’s letter to said

on which I am bcc’d virtually unseen in 2020 I read an article concerning

three persons

three persons appearing on a television game show whose name is a question

that waits for no answer posed without question an address such as who’s a

good girl who wants an ice cream no student loans contestants compete solo

save for one call a lifeline it’s called who-wants-to-be four syllables

these three soon after taping accused of a conspiracy to cheat “using sounds”

sounds of coughing on the game show by the production company whose

name recalls a phrase to denote the closing off of a great stock one of many

this one often among English compounds supposed the most beautiful

“as long as one can . . . dissociate sound from meaning” when thinking or

speaking or hearing the compound as described in the paper of record’s

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the accusation made the police called the check blocked the subsequent

charges the trial of three persons the edited footage provided by the

production company to court the beautiful sound the edited footage the

admissible evidence and maintenance of innocence

the convictions the fines and the fees the suspended sentence recorded in the

paper where the judge passing sentence is noted to consider whether “sheer

greed motivated” or outstanding debt he settles instead on what he says must

have been for all three a preoccupation with glory some portion the glory and

in closing the debonair host on behalf of the audience expresses the shock of

duplicity shock of “the dishonesty of a man in the army” on record 8 April

2003

8 April 2003 a school day a best friend’s twelfth birthday

the next day over the lede the question of whose is the oil the oil-for-food

the fact of the soldiers issued the soldiers of the regime dressed in civilian

clothing thus indistinguishable from civilians fighting an invading force

three weeks in dissociated from meaning the headline sound of “wells of

wealth” a press conference where a journalist asks after three strikes in

question two bombed news stations three journalists in the day before’s dead

the replying of the oil exec

the episode of evidence taped on 9 and 10 September 2001 and slotted

for broadcast one week after postponed by the trial and broadcast two

weeks after verdict 21 April 2003 described in a television database as

the one in which a contestant cheats “with help from a friend” a cast of

self and host the box office behind paywall

the episode aired on the independent national station as a documentary

setting several records in millions of viewers “a power surge equivalent

to an episode of” a show named for the road to ascend a throne a

crown of blossoms a halo

the production company the so-called larder closure and their property

then acquired by a company whose product is conversion of “viewer

into customer” and whose name summons in passing a threat of

mutuality and the wheeled motion of motor vehicles guided by thin

painted-on lines that hurtle in opposing directions along a road who

hazards to cross it attends to both

the production company now called two-way traffic acquired since by

a subsidiary of the multinational conglomerate through which another

subsidiary named for one side of a river or perhaps a terse comment on

recent investment in another stockpile or withdrawal or exercise in the

establishment of credit “left bank” like a U-turn produces the threepart

scripted series I am reading about in May 2020

a three-part scripted series in which evidence is plied against the three

persons two of whom are married the third a college lecturer as was

my friend evidence for and against the three persons presented to the

scripted series audience evidence types including automatic mirroring

vacillating between unknowns waiting walking away not with nothing

with something once written down about a portrait of the ambassadors

found in your handwriting found in your home the guilt suites

coughing a curated cut with the volume turned up a person onscreen

expels sound falls silent

though the trial I now find on an open-source platform had been by

jury a twelve-person jury dismissed after one juror gets sick the jurors

exchanged for twelve more jurors finding two out of three guilty and

the judge turning them back to deliberation because the case rests on

this requirement the verdict must be all or nothing

in weighing the evidence one might conclude the game show’s

legitimacy that dissociated from meaning sounds like the sham grows

legitimately an ornamental pillow covering its tracery its in any

sequence any other sequencing in any silence a languaging dependent

on congestion dependent on susceptibility in this language it develops

a speech that goes “You can earn money . . . ” and “You can deserve

this . . . . . . ” but sounds at most ranges of a silence a profit a silence a

trademark made on one’s own name to block manufacture in it of a

cough syrup product

according to the Times piece about the TV show about the TV show

the about the TV show TV show has been filmed in two versions two

scripts in one the actors are told to conspire in one told to act innocent

these versions are incorporate spliced and merged the ambiguous given

limits two visions who wants to be ambivalent

and in its making in the making of their mingled guilt and innocence

the audience is pressed to remember the ambassadors who bring this

check the opportune dotted line “skillfully worked” these high–thread

count textiles this curtain of crushed velvet or perhaps voided or pile

on pile this chain-linked necklace of bas relief cherub this sere celadon

globe the woodcut gores Magellan’s voyage this perhaps ermine these

gathered cylinders pixilated this open book of division this beautiful

note recovered from the basement this overturned lute case under the

table this distort head of oil these persons serge memento