The
Painter
of the
Night.
Someone
called in a report
that she had seen a man
painting in the dark over by the
pond. A police car was dispatched to go
investigate. The two officers with their big
flashlights walked all around the pond, but
found nothing suspicious. Hatcher
was the younger of the two,
and he said to Johnson,
"What do you think
he was painting?"
Johnson
looked
bemused
and said, "The
dark, stupid. What
else could he have been
paiting?" Hatcher, a little hurt,
said, "Frogs in the Dark, Lily pads in
the dark, Pond in the Dark. Just as many
things exist in the dark as they do in the light."
Johnson paused, exasperated. Then Hatcher
added, "I'd like to see them. Hell, I might
even buy one. Maybe there's more out
there than we know. We are the
police, after all.