Who are the jokers?
The jokers are the govt., and the most important joker of all is the governor, a bug-eyed, strutting, rapacious personality of unequaled incompetence who presides over the anonymous heart japanese urban the place this bubbling comedy via Albert Cossery is set.
The jokers also are the revolutionaries, no much less bumbling and no much less infatuated with the trimmings of strength than the govt they oppose.
And the jokers are Karim, Omar, Heykal, Urfy, and their associates, loose spirits who see the opposite jokers for the jokers they're and feature cooked up a worldly and, most vital, foolproof plan to liven up public existence with a touch of subversive humor.
The funny story is on them all.
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Anything within the panorama had replaced: no longer the least signal of a bum dozing within the solar; no longer a unmarried physique sprawled out or squatting in the street. Begging were pushed underground. And the place had the beggars long gone? It was once not going they have been all operating in factories. the place, then? It was once this type of pity! The absence of beggars at the cliff street was once an indication of fixing instances. This fool governor, along with his absurd rules, had succeeded in essentially changing the town. Karim puzzled what had develop into of the dummy he’d dumped off in the course of the eu area final evening. Had they found him but? He wanted he’d been there whilst the police had apprehended the synthetic beggar; he’d overlooked out on an outstanding snigger. possibly there’d be anything approximately it within the papers. yet there has been no hoping on it. The papers have been all within the governor’s pay; they’d by no means dare to submit a narrative that may flip him right into a laughingstock for children. So what? The governor himself could listen approximately this farcical assault on his orders. His thick cranium could shatter to pieces—he’d by no means count on them to return after him in such an strange style. prior to now, he’d been satisfied to arrest the atypical member of the underground progressive occasion, a simple goal through the years for no matter what governor occurred to be in energy. Having hence made a express of energy, and having resolved, within the demeanour of his excellent predecessors, the matter of competition within the laboring sessions, the governor believed his pursuits to be secure from any harmful propaganda. He used to be acquainted with just one type of subversive spirit: these scattered people who, intransigent of their hatred, sought glory via motion and have been keen to put down their lives for the sake of the best and the nice. males who took themselves heavily, in different phrases, like him. How may well he have suspected that town was once additionally domestic to a brand new, budding breed of innovative, scathing and humorous, for whom he and his variety around the globe have been not anything yet puppets pulled via strings, their phrases and gestures not anything however the gruesome convulsions of a buffoon. Karim may perhaps see that negative issues lay in shop for the governor. He’d locate himself crushed through a brand new form of insurrection and wouldn’t understand how to react. There’d been leisure price within the bogus beggar, yet that was once just a trifle in comparison to the titanic, loopy plot that used to be now lower than approach. Karim knew that his pal and companion, the incomparable Heykal, used to be at present engaged on a mystery plan of such subtlety and scope that it'll break the governor’s authority for reliable. to inform the reality, Karim wasn’t certain simply what was once being plotted; Heykal were mysterious concerning the information of his jolly conspiracy. yet now Karim had facts that the release of the key offensive was once approaching: Heykal had eventually made up our minds to fulfill with Khaled Omar, the businessman, and he had requested Karim to take a message to Omar arranging a gathering that very evening. That this assembly used to be happening confirmed that Heykal had constructed a plan of assault and that he required fabric advice in its execution; Khaled Omar’s fortune and generosity of spirit may be useful to the reason.