The Third of Little Johnny Panni’s Last Thoughts ~ 8 December If I am a man of this world, a man of my time, and the world has gone mad in my time, is that not the seed of my demise? What a stupid question. He asks stupid questions. He always has. Or has he? Maybe he hasn’t asked enough questions. Or maybe not the right questions. Has the world gone crazy? Is it necessary for it to have flipped out, or is it simply necessary for me to perceive that it has? Ha! He thinks he is Raskolnikov! That ’s who Johnny-panni is. Ha! No. No! He is Willie Loman. Yes. Loman. And Ethan Hawley. Nothing new. He is simply them reincarnate: in a new age, by a new age. In an age when they are not supposed to exist! What do you think. Fyodor? Does he qualify? Ha! He qualifies for borrowing 6,000 dollars at