The OverDrone

#7: OK when last we left our refugee from the Celestial Kingdom he was walking in the rain with a broken umbrella which seems to have angered the populace as they are now chucking bricks at him. I can’t imagine what he might have done to deserve this but if you look at the year on the copyright you will see that it reads 1933. 1933, the year Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany and the year of the Reichstag fire as well. Prohibition is repealed and Franky D. Roosevelt takes office. Also, the chocolate chip cookie is invented and The Diexi earthquake shakes Mao County, Sichuan, China and kills 9,000 people.

Clearly then,  in an example of the terrible symmetry which life sometimes imposes on us,  Ching Chow is  fleeing from a loutish crowd of drunken Friends of the New Germany party members while also reliving the destruction which caused him to leave his beloved Sichuan province. For the purpose of this post let us assume that the brick’s path can be traced back to the hand of one of the drunken American Nazi’s who are so similar to our own time’s Teabagger Party.

Further evidence of his intentions can be found in his pithy declaration which must have caused some puzzlement amongst the slow minded FNG membership who are attacking him.

It is said- Patience is the key to joy- it has been written- every blade of grass gets it’s drop of dew-

There is some elision there as Ching Chow first tells his simple minded pursuers that this comes not from Ching Chow but from the collective wisdom of the Middle Kingdom.

Ching Chow then recommends that his antagonists be patient in their pursuit of joy, which is actually quite ironic since what seems to bring them joy is the bricking of Manchu era stereotypes including himself and the insidious and inscrutable Fu Manchu.

What follows then is a verbal footnoting of a sort as Ching Chow informs the mob that his next statement is also recorded on paper. On paper perhaps but this proverb is nowhere to be found in the online records of Cunfucianist writings which I have searched.

Perhaps Ching Chow is referring to it’s publication in the Chicago Tribune and other papers of note in which case he is referring to a future event as there is about three months of lead time between submission and publication of newspaper comics. If that is so then that would also explain his reference to every blade of grass getting it’s drop of dew. Again I must stress that he is remarkably calm even while under assault and perhaps it is because of his prognosticative powers, can it be that this lowly peasant has looked into the future and seen the eventual demise of National Socialism?

Having seen the bodies of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun being dragged into the rubble strewn streets of Berlin twelve years later Ching Chow knows that all he has to do is escape this rabble, labor for a dozen years and then invest heavily in BMW and Krupps stock and he will get the last laugh, or, as he puts it, his drop of dew for Ching Chow knows his children will go to college and eventually layoff the grandchildren of this ignorant crowd of semi employables when American manufacturing moves overseas to his beloved Sichuan Province.

Strangely though,  he totally misses the whole Mao’s march and the ensuing People’s Republic of China but that was a common mistep among oracles and seers of the time.

I am not sure where the chocolate chip cookie fits into all of this but reader suggestions are welcomed.