RANGE: All points of entry on the American border: airports, docks, bus stations, highways, byways, and goat paths, secret tunnels, unpatrolled deserts, and small holes in fences known only to himself. HABITS: Don Faun provides counsel and inspiration to such members of the tired, poor, and huddled masses as persist in yearning to breathe free, even though the quota has been filled. He whispers nautical bearings in the ear of a Haitian tillerman and helps him steer his overloaded dinghy to a safe landing on the Florida strand. He assists Iranians in pronouncing those difficult English words, “Iyama stewdant.” He guides uncarded farmhands across the Rio Grande and into the employ of leather-skinned but tenderhearted lettuce ranch ramrods. In return for smuggling an immigrant into America (and getting him established in the small filthy headshop business), Don Faun insists only that his clients show him respect and remain faithful to the folkways of their homelands—that is, that they continue to eat with paddles, wear grotesque hats, or, in some cases, linger in ignorance of most fundamental rules of hygiene. Many newcomers to these shores further honor their patron, the Don, by becoming, once safely settled in the new country, fiercely demonstrative patriots of the land they left. HISTORY: For centuries, Don Faun capered merrily in the woods around the walls of Rome, assisting waves of Goths and Vandals in obtaining looting permits. He himself stowed away with the fleet of Corsican Folletti, when those earth spirits of old Italy were forced to flee their police-ridden homeland. He is a friendly, godfatherly type, who has helped generations of immigrants find their way to his adopted country. A creature of great power and resourcefulness, one of his greatest triumphs came when, rather than smuggle every native of Texas into the U.S.A., he simply arranged for the annexation of the territory. He acted similarly in the case of Alaska, personally lobbying William Seward to purchase that frozen wasteland and thereby earned the undying gratitude of the Eskimos, all of whom were eager for citizenship. Don Faun currently has his eye on Puerto Rico. SPOTTER’S TIPS: If you are reading this in the United States, you don’t need to find Don Faun. Across our borders, Don Faun helps fill up the Melting Pot.
棲息地 アメリカと国境を接す
るあらゆるところ。 または空
港, 波止場, バスターミナル、
ハイウェイ,裏街道,廃鉱のト
ンネル,パトロールのいない砂
漠。 貧富あるいは文化の程度が
極端にちがう国が隣りあってい
る場合, 水が高いところから低
いところへ自然と流れるように
密入国者も流れこんでくる。
習性 自由な空気を求める抑圧
された貧しい人たちに、この密
入国の妖精たちは助言と希望を
あたえる。 そして彼らをアメリ
カに密入国させるかわりに,そ
れ以後も母国の生活様式をかた
くなに守っていくように要求す
る。ひとたび、うまくアメリカ
に住みつくことのできた人たち
は、母国への熱烈な愛国心を示
すことによって, 彼らの協力者
であったこの妖精たちに代金を
払っているのだ。
アメリカ政府としては, 密入
国者があとを絶たないことより
も、彼らが妖精たちとの約束を
守って,ガンとして母国の因習
を捨てずに暮らしていることに
いちばん頭を悩ませている。 こ
のまま放置しておけば、アメリ
カじゅうにいくつもの国々が誕
生してしまうだろう。これはも
う, 「進出」ではなく、 「侵略」
以外のなにものでもない。
歴史 すぐ隣りにお金持ちの国
がある貧しい国の出身。 何世紀
にもわたり,この妖精たちは,
貧しい人たちといっしょに貴族
のいる城壁のなかにはいりたく
革命か密入
てたまらなかった。
国か、彼らは,いつもこの選択
に悩まされる。
私立探偵の情報 もしあなたが
アメリカ合衆国内でこれを読ん
でいるなら、密入国の妖精たち
をさがす必要はない。
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GC
AWAY
Habitat
Every point bordering America. Airports, docks, bus terminals, highways, back roads, abandoned mine tunnels, unpatrolled deserts. When two neighboring countries are at extreme opposite ends of wealth or culture, illegal immigrants flow in as naturally as water flowing from high ground to low.
Behavior
These sprites give counsel and hope to poor, oppressed people seeking free air. In exchange for smuggling them into America, they demand that the newcomers stubbornly maintain their homeland’s customs and way of life. Those who successfully settle in America repay their sprite collaborators by demonstrating fierce patriotic love for their home country.
The American government is less troubled by the endless stream of illegal immigrants than by the fact that these people keep their promise to the sprites — stubbornly refusing to abandon their homeland customs. Left unchecked, any number of separate nations will be born right inside America. This is no longer mere “expansion” — it’s nothing short of “invasion.”
History
Originally from poor countries with wealthy neighbors. For centuries these sprites longed desperately to get inside the castle walls where the aristocrats lived — alongside the poor people they championed. Revolution or illegal immigration — they are always tormented by this choice.
Field Intelligence
If you are reading this inside the United States of America, there is no need to search for the illegal immigration sprites.
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