The Christian Wrong or the group formally known as the Christian Right, like to lay a lot of God in everything they say or do. They take great stock in God, like Bill Clinton takes stock in fucking. It used to tolerable when they were on the street corner with a bull horn, talking about the end of the world. Now, since they took control of the White House and America, nobody’s laughing. I say its time to laugh. Reason to Laugh #1: Who is God? They don’t know who God is, but they take the “word” of God seriously. Imagine if you didn’t know who your boss was, but everyday you got a memo commanding you to do a number of useless chores that have no importance at all. Would you still work for your “mysterious” boss? No, you’d tell your boss to go fuck himself. The Christian Wrong doesn’t their boss to fuck himself because Dick Cheney would have them killed. Nobody knows who God is, but God seems to me to be an overbearing prude, a father figure if you will. Someone who stays home all day and gardens, complains, and watches Martha Stewart reruns. He’s a prude because he is allegedly against premarital sex, drinking, masturbation, adultery, gambling, stealing, and Michael Moore. The Michael Moore part was added into God’s doctrine when the Bush Administration took over the country and rewrote the Bible while rewriting the Constitution. They messed up because now at the start of the Ten Commandments’ it clearly states, “We the people.” Reason #2: Thou Shall Not Kill…unless God says it’s okay. More humans have been killed in the name of God, than have caught the clap from fucking Courtney Love. If God is against hot teen sex and whacking off, then what in gods name is the reasoning behind the killing? Simple: Overpopulation. Then again we wouldn’t have to kill people if members from certain ethnic groups would use condoms. You can’t blame the Muslim Extremists because it’s hard to conceive a child when your husband had your uterus cut out. Reason #3: Religion is a really a big cop out. It’s like saying you’re an alcoholic, but through the grace of the Lord I found religion and overcame my addictions. Bullshit! You ran over a little girl, went to prison and spent the last five years giving head to a guy named Bubba. You’re not a religious person, you’re a cumcatcher. Sure you pray, you pray never to be sent back to San Quentin. Born Again Christians are the biggest pussies I have ever seen in my life. They couldn’t handle their drugs or booze or hookers, or other fun things. So they switched from Jack Daniel’s to Jesus. What a bunch of quitters, I’d take the Jack any day of the week. They ruined their lives so now they think they can show us the way to the Promised Land, because they were saved. Saved my ass, they got to take a fucking mulligan. And because they took a mulligan we have to listen to their shit every time we turn on TV or go to get an abortion. You think giving them the control of our country would be enough to get them to shut the fuck up. I wish they were truly born again, so they could crawl back into their mother’s womb and we could abort them! It worked for Earl Simpson, Jessica’s real brother, the one the Simpson family doesn’t want us to know about. The world would be a better place if God wasn’t brought into the equation on every life threatening or possible life saving situation. For instance, Stem Cell Research. Fetuses are not people; they are simply dead slimy things in jars. But we can’t do research with these dead slimy things in jars because Christians say life begins when you are just thinking about fucking somebody. We can’t do research and possibly cure diseases such as juvenile diabetes and type 2 diabetes because these people have their heads up their asses. People are dying unjustly because Christians think that some day fetuses will grow up to vote Republican. God and religion belong in churches only and out of our hospitals, courtrooms, government, and the “Hustler Club.” I would like to tell the various Christian Fundamentalists that are listening to this, God doesn’t like humans, if God liked the human race, he wouldn’t have sent you here to piss us off.

“What do you know about art, Volk?” Maxim Abdullaev hurls the question through the airwaves as if it were an ax, cleaving pretense. I cram my Nokia cell phone against my ear. Clattering dishes, jostling diners, and raised voices give me an excuse to delay answering his question. “Hold on,” I say, then step downstairs to my table in the basement of Vadim’s Café near Staraya Street, where I make my office. Maxim could be anywhere. His headquarters are in the Solsnetskaya neighborhood just a few blocks away, but he changes his personal place of business weekly, sometimes daily, so it is impossible to develop a mental picture of where he is or what he is doing. Once I’ve moved away from the din, I take a moment to gather my thoughts. “Art? I have a master’s in art history from Moscow University.” I’m sure that Maxim knows enough about my life to catch the sarcasm. Dead mother, disappeared father, late-era Soviet poverty, and five years of killing and worse in Chechnya unsurprisingly failed to harmonize into a world-class education. The things I have learned are not taught in universities. He barks a deep-throated chuckle that offers no comfort. A polar bear probably makes the same sound just before it eats. “Listen,” he says. “You do something for me. Talk to Gromov. Yes?” “Yes,” I say, as if I have a choice, and Maxim disconnects. Two hours later, nearing midnight, Gromov clumps like a plow horse into my basement office. The flesh on his bald head and puffy face droops like a shar-pei’s skin and slits his eyes, which are shifty-nervous, with good cause. Valya lurks hidden among the shelves of café sundries behind him. “You talked to Maxim?” he says. I grunt acknowledgment. He collapses into a padded roller chair that disappears, creaking, beneath his bulk. Even its silvery round feet are covered by the hanging folds of his overcoat, where one hand stays buried in a deep pocket. He likes to show off a chromed Colt .45 Peacemaker, an outdated cannon that rends great holes in bodies, a good weapon for a man whose business is intimidation. “I got a business opportunity,” he begins. “Maxim says you’re the guy to help me assess it.” “I don’t do partners.” He knows this. My rule is one source of the friction between us. “Yeah, yeah.” Scarred leather biker boots twirl the chair as he takes in the surroundings. There’s not much to see here in the basement level. Black slate floor, rows of shelves, exposed raw-wood beams, plaster walls randomly damaged to show the red brick beneath, and dusty ’60s-era slot machines. Gromov is looking for Valya, I know, but she won’t be seen unless she wants to be. He finishes his survey and grins through crooked yellow teeth ridged black with omnipresent chewing tobacco. “Maybe you should do partners.” “Say what you came to say.” I point to the empty tabletop in front of me. “I’ve got work to do.” “You know diamonds?” “Maxim says art, you say diamonds. Which is it?” “Same thing, asshole.” When he yanks his hand from his overcoat pocket, Valya materializes behind him and aims the short barrel of a pistol-grip, 12-gauge Mossberg at the back of his shaved skull. But instead of drawing the Colt, he tosses a crystal rectangle that tumbles sparkling through the air before smacking into my palm. Valya withdraws. Gromov leans back, smugly oblivious to the nearness of death, while I examine his prize. The stone is about one centimeter square by three long. One end is broken, jagging up into a ragged half peak. Unreadable inscriptions are etched into its flat sides. The etchings are names written in Persian, I know. I toss it back, and he catches it deftly. “You’re an idiot, Gromov.” His jaw muscles are so big that his face widens into a pyramid when he clenches his teeth. “Fuck you.” I wave toward his hand. “That’s a bad imitation of the Shah Diamond. The real one’s five blocks up the road in the Kremlin Armory under more security than Putin.” That’s a lie. The real one’s gone. It was originally a gift to Tsar Nicholas I to atone for a Russian diplomat made dead in 1820s Tehran. Famous, in part, because all the unlucky owners named in the inscriptions died owning it. Damn near ninety carats preserved in uncut form. Three years ago I helped it make a symbolic but unpublicized journey back to Persia, to the rare arts collection of a spoiled Saudi prince, in return for financial considerations benefiting my primary patron, the Russian army. A better fake than this one sits behind glass under twenty-four-hour security in the Kremlin’s Diamond Fund. “See?” he says. “You know about this kind of shit.” “Even the tourists know about the Shah Diamond.” He leans forward as far as his muscle-bound body will allow and settles flying-buttress elbows on my table, which groans but holds. Like much of the older furniture in Moscow, it was sturdily built by cold gulag hands. “What if I told you I could get the real thing, with nobody the wiser?” “You can’t. Don’t waste my time.” “Listen.” He scrunches his broad face, concentrating. “We got inside guys. Military, pissed off by Putin capitalism. They’re like pensioners on the dole while guys like us get rich. They take the diamond, replace it with the fake. Think about it. The fucker’s under glass all day, like goddamn Lenin. Who knows if what’s under there is real? Who cares? In five years some Swiss prick looks at it under a microscope and raises hell. By then, shit, there’s no way to trace who did what and when.” I say it can’t be that easy, although it was. “You just worry about your end,” he says. “What’s my end?” “Work the distribution angle.” Gromov’s running hot, trembling, obviously excited. “You’re tight with that fag, Nigel Bolles.” He mouths Nigel’s name with curled-lip contempt. “He’ll point you to guys in London or New York or wherever and help us find someone with too much money to buy it.” “I’m not your guy.” His jaw drops. “Why not?” “I told you. I don’t do partners. And I think your chances of getting the real thing out of there are zero.” Pounding veins ripple under the five o’clock shadow that darkens his enormous dome. “Why do you make things so fucking hard, Volk? Three times I say let’s do business. Three times you tell me to fuck off.” He rolls mountainous shoulders, as if to make room under the overcoat. “Business is getting too tight. Every time I turn around you’re there. You’re in my way.” He’s right about our businesses bumping into each other, at least the parts of mine he knows about — drugs, identity theft, pictures, and a Russian brides operation that caters to the middle classes of America and industrialized European and Asian countries. Russia has ten million more women than men, one product of her endless fighting and purging, and she always imports more than she exports. I figure the bride business evens out both imbalances. Gromov’s interests collide with mine in several ways, although he’s big into child prostitution and other things that I won’t touch. But he’s wrong to worry about it, because there’s plenty of business for both of us on this little stretch of road below old Lubyanka prison and because the Internet has made us international. “Don’t be so parochial, Gromov.” “What the fuck does that mean?” “It means we’ll get along fine if you concentrate on business instead of territorial bullshit. Steal your diamond. Hump Lyudmilla. Just stay away from me.” He doesn’t like my way of rejecting him or the reference to his billowy-breasted girlfriend. He stands so suddenly his chair overturns. Snarls, roars something unintelligible, hauls out his hand cannon, and starts to bear down, slow and amateurish. I don’t think he’s going to fire. He just wants to make a point. But then the racking slide of a shotgun cracks through everything. He stops dead. His eyes click back and forth like the ones in the plastic clocks that look like tail-wagging pets, but he’s careful not to turn around and provoke her. “It’s Valya,” I offer, and both of his hands go up slowly until the muzzle of the Colt brushes the bottom of a low beam. She’s behind him, looking amped, ready for anything, almost lost in lace-up boots, cinched parachute pants, and a chrome-colored jacket with its sable-lined hood turned down. The Mossberg rests lightly in her hands. Her white hair sprays backlight like a halo. “I’m done,” he says without turning around. I nod at him, and he shucks open the overcoat and slots the Colt into a holster made from more than one cow. “I got no choice,” he says in the same tone you use to tell a cabdriver to turn right. “I gotta put you out of business, gimp.” The gibe about my foot doesn’t bother me. Impending war does, especially given Maxim’s newly found interest in the world of art. The General and I had three years to operate freely in that arena. I wish our time wasn’t coming to an end. “Have at it, big man,” I say. He turns fast, but Valya is nowhere to be seen. One last baleful look at me, and then Gromov lumbers away. Lunch the next day is sliced smoked pork on the sunny side of an outdoor gazebo in grassy Gorky Park. Halfway through, I’m joined by Yuri, a baton-twirling cop. He goes sixty kilos, maybe. He approaches with his spindly chest puffed out, slides his baton into a steel ring attached to his belt, and plops down across from me. The sun glints through the silver birch trees and gambols off the gold double-headed Russian eagle in his cap as I slide an envelope stuffed with American dollars across the plastic tabletop. He plucks the envelope and tucks it under his leg, fast and furtive. “Shit, Volk!” His eyes dart, but I’m busy with the pork. I don’t care who sees. I stop chewing long enough to say, “There’s an extra five hundred for Viktor. And a note.” Viktor commands Yuri’s area. He’s been on my payroll for two years. The note explains the information I want about Gromov, and the extra money pays for it. Gromov is probably paying for similar reports about me. Yuri pulls a foil-wrapped sandwich from a brown bag blotched with oil stains, but then he sits and watches me without eating. He sets his cap on the table and licks the down on his upper lip, which has been the same since I met him a year ago, so I suppose it’s a mustache. “Where’s Valya?” he asks. The pork is gone. I suck the fat off my fingers and pat his balding head. He’s younger than me, mid-twenties, but the hair gods are fickle. He’s softer than me as well. War and want have hardened my appearance. Military-cut bronze hair, hazel eyes with a feral blaze, stubbled jaw — I look ferocious even when I’m trying not to. Each pat makes his head bounce. “Don’t mess with me, Yuri.” His eyes widen. “God no, Volk.” I leave him to his sandwich. I’m tromping through the high grass of Gorky Park to my Mercedes S-600 when the Nokia buzzes. “Go.” “It’s Nigel.” Bolles. My largest procurer of foreign business. The British expat fop Gromov asked about the day before. I wait. “Word’s out you’re in a war, old boy,” he says. His lilting voice is strained, due, no doubt, to a night of hard drinking and no morning Stolichnaya fix. “Business is always tough.” “How can I help?” Just what I need. “The British are coming,” I say, but he apparently misses the negative reference. “Precisely. I am at your service.” “Just keep finding customers.” “Right.” He clears his throat. It sounds like a cold motor coughing to life. “In that regard, you’ll be pleased to learn I have an opportunity for tonight. Swiss conventioneers with a common interest.” “Just drugs?” “Boys and girls, too.” He sounds regretful. He knows my scruple, silly as it is. In the end, what difference who makes the money? The children are pincushions either way. I stop on a knoll carpeted with flattened grass that shines like wet jade. Even in early May the wind blows chill over the Moscow River and bends the tops of the stately line of birches that march up the embankment toward the towering peaks of the university. Industrial haze blurs the cityscape. The spires of Stalin’s other Seven Sisters pierce the haze like upthrust stilettos. Gromov is manageable. I know I can dispatch him with relative ease. But he’s one of Maxim’s poodles, and as chieftain of the Azeri mafia, Maxim can crush my enterprises on a whim. “Are you still there, Volk?” I grit my teeth. “I’ll meet you at the National Club at ten to arrange the details.” My chest tightens, and suddenly I feel as if I can’t take in enough air. “Well done.” He’s reenergized, doubtless calculating his twenty percent cut. I end the call, limp to the Mercedes favoring my newly throbbing stump, and crank the shiny black car into heavy traffic, already ruing my decision. The cell buzzes again. “Go.” “Volk?” “Who wants to know?” “It’s Arkady.” Several years have passed since I last heard from Arkady Borodenkov — one of my companions in a foster care facility and, later, at a rehabilitation center for boys situated on the Baltic shore. A childhood friend in places where friends were scarce. And last I heard, an Ecstasy distributor and part-time fence in St. Petersburg. Slightly built, with blond hair worn long, too weak for anything except the fringes. “What’s up?” I say. “I got a weird one for you. A score that needs muscle and hustle. But mostly it needs brains. I thought of you.” I cut through traffic and outraged pedestrians on Kremlevskaya Street, make an illegal U-turn and then a hard right and rattle over unevenly laid bricks on the edge of Red Square. St. Basil’s Cathedral looms on the left, its colorful domes like ice-cream swirls. The bright colors and the crowds lined up around the cathedral seem to be mocking decades of Soviet religious oppression. “Keep going.” “I’m not even sure how to describe it.” I’m in no mood for stalling, not while the scum of the deal I just made with Nigel still coats the inside of my mouth. “Spit it out.” “What do you know about art, Volk?” Copyright © 2007 Brent Ghelfi from the book Volks Game Published by Henry Holt and Company; June 2007;$23.00US; 978-0-8050-8254-8 Brent Ghelfi has served as a clerk on the U.S. Court of Appeals, been a partner in a Phoenix-headquartered law firm, and now owns and operates several businesses. He has traveled extensively throughout Russia, and lives in Phoenix with his wife, a former prosecutor, and their two sons. He is currently working on the sequel to Volk’s Game. Visit .volksgame.com.

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On North Earl Street in Dublin stands a statue affectionately known as ‘the prick with the stick’. It is in fact a statue of arguably Dublin’s most famous writer, James Joyce. Along with the bust of Joyce in St Stephen’s Green in the city, and the fact that there is a street, as well as a library in the university college named after him, and a museum dedicated to his life and works, it soon becomes clear just how revered James Joyce is in Dublin. As if all of that wasn’t enough, Joyce enthusiasts now also hold a celebration every year on June 16th known as Bloomsday, to commemorate the life of Joyce; and also to relive the events that take place in Joyce’s most famous work: the novel, Ulysses. The novel is set in Dublin, and the entire story takes place on one day

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