Anything Could Happen Book
Shawana Kallhoff
Retired, Gilbert Garcin photographs in his garden shed. His world is appealing, he is internationally recognized: a fast-track fairy tale to prove that the world of art is not a closed shop. Garcin is no nave painter, but a life far from art studies has certainly preserved in him a certain freshness. Nonetheless, we can place him between Teun Hocks and Chema Madoz, photographers with surrealist humour. He prefers to point to Buster Keaton, and his photographic double also evokes Monsieur Hulot. With retirement, anything could happen!
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There are other cogent lessons to be learned from a lifetime engaged in the blood sport of politics, campaigns, elections and candidacies: Anything can happen. No one knows what is going to happen. Nothing stays the same.
This presidential campaign has been going on for more than 3 1/2 years. And by this campaign, I mean Joe Biden versus Donald Trump. Same two guys. Same debates over issues, demeanor, motivations, behavior and mental cogency.
In any case, this contest has lost its ability to invigorate, excite or entice the great middle majority of voters who do not care for either choice and are ripe for something or someone new. Preferably younger.
Some recent local campaigns have demonstrated that voters are seeking a change in the status quo. To paraphrase a 1960s figure who also embodied this desire to change, John F. Kennedy, there is an abiding sense it is time for the torch to be passed to a new generation of Americans.
It is no small irony that Trump appears to have figured this out and nominated someone who would become the youngest vice president in history, four years younger than Kennedy when he was elected president.
Even if he is, as the Biden team insists with some slight acknowledgments, he is not young and he is not getting any younger. The prospect for the next few weeks is that the campaign will look worse for Biden.
Trump will get a bump in the polls by the end of the Republican National Convention. This almost always happens after conventions. It will be compounded by the assassination attempt, the kind of event that has an immediate, if short-term, galvanizing effect on voters. Assuming tonight that Trump displays the calmer, unifying demeanor that has been hinted at by the GOP all week, it could be a big bump.
Meanwhile, the chorus appears to be growing of prominent Democrats who say Biden ought to step aside. Even louder, if you will, is the silence from other key figures, notably former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who no longer rush to his defense, hinting things are even worse for Biden than is revealed publicly.
It is rare for someone at this level in politics to voluntarily give up power. The two who have done so in modern history are Lyndon Johnson and Richard Nixon, which is somewhat instructive as to how bad it has to get for a president to step aside.
If the 2024 campaign is simply more of the same, it will continue to be disenchanting to many voters. If the campaign suddenly is freshened, and is about the next generation and about the future, as it was when Bill Clinton ran and when Barack Obama ran, the potential is that the race becomes something entirely different and distinctly more exciting.
The Yin Yang tribe returns to camp, and Parvati Shallow tries to get Russell Hantz to admit that Sandra Diaz-Twine made a good play at the previous Tribal Council with her Hidden Immunity Idol. Russell tells Sandra that it was a bad play and argues with Sandra about the idol.
Russell talks with Jerri Manthey and Colby Donaldson and tells them that Parvati is lying out of her teeth and needs to be the next to go. After Russell leaves, Jerri tells Colby she has wanted Parvati out since the beginning of the game because she is such a threat. Colby rejoices that the Villains are all fighting with each other once again.
The following day, Parvati reads Tree Mail revealing the next Immunity Challenge to be a challenge about stacking dishes, which she recognizes from Survivor: China. Russell plans to vote out Colby if he doesn't win immunity, but if he does, Russell plans on voting out Parvati and take Jerri and Sandra to the finals with him.
The tribe goes to compete at the challenge, and it comes down to Parvati and Colby, each with seventeen dishes stacked up. Colby's stack falls, and Parvati wins individual immunity over a visibly upset Colby.
When the tribe returns to camp, Colby announces to the tribe that he made a play at the previous vote to break up the Villains that failed, and then tried to win immunity and didn't succeed, so now he is surrendering to the will of the Villains, and he receives a hug from everybody. In reality however, Colby's surrender speech is his last chance strategic play.
Colby goes and talks with Russell around the campfire about the possibility of voting for Sandra so that the three other people; Russell, Jerri, and himself, have a better chance of beating Parvati in the final challenge. Colby tells Russell that Parvati will get all the jury votes.
At Tribal Council, Colby talks about his performance in the season compared to his other ones. Colby tells everyone this game has been the toughest on him and his journey to this point has also been the most difficult, being disappointed with his lackluster challenge performance. The tribe talks about trust, and everyone agrees you cannot fully trust anybody in the game. At the vote, Russell and Jerri decide to stick with the Villains and Colby is voted out 4-1, making him the last Hero to be eliminated from the game. Before Colby departs, he receives a hug from Jerri.
When the Villains return to camp, they talk about seeing Rupert Boneham on the jury looking as though he were a crazy person. Sandra says she has no regrets voting out Rupert and Colby because both wrote her name down, and Colby twice. Parvati worries about what Colby said during Tribal Council about her.
Russell and Jerri talk about how they need to win immunity to prevent Parvati from winning. Russell tells Jerri that if Parvati is able to win immunity, that she will win the game at the Final Tribal Council.
Parvati returns to camp with Tree Mail, saying they will go through the Rites of Passage, recognizing their fallen comrades in the game before going to the Final Immunity Challenge. During the Rites of Passage, the previously eliminated castaways reminisce on their time in the game.
After completing the Rites of Passage, the final four go to compete in the Final Immunity Challenge. The challenge is a close three-way competition between Jerri, Russell, and Parvati. Ultimately, Russell exits the maze and takes the individual Immunity Necklace just a second before Jerri and right ahead of Parvati.
Russell takes a walk with Sandra and tells her that she's sitting in a very good spot. Sandra is confused by what Russell means and tells him that she is in the same spot as Parvati, but Russell tells her that she's going to be in his final three plan no matter what, he tells Sandra that he is being honest with her because he thinks he can beat her for the million. Sandra, knowing that Russell has angered most of the jury, pretends to agree that Russell can beat her and says she's fine with earning the runner-up prize money of $100,000.
Jerri, Russell, and Sandra talk around the shelter and Jerri asks them if they are still solid together to vote out Parvati. Russell confirms his allegiance to the final three of himself, Sandra, and Jerri. Later, when Parvati comes back into camp from gathering coconuts, she takes Russell and they go on a walk down the beach. Russell tells Parvati he wants Sandra in the final three and to eliminate Jerri. Parvati tries to tell Russell to reconsider his decision, telling him that Sandra would instantly get Amanda Kimmel, Candice Woodcock, and Courtney Yates' votes for the million. Russell disagrees with Parvati and insists that they send Jerri to the jury, partly because he feels like she will vote for him.
The final four arrive at Tribal Council. Jerri and Sandra talk about what they did when they came back from the Immunity Challenge. Sandra mentions that Russell told her that she cannot win. Jerri and Parvati make pitches to Russell for them to stay in the game. The final four go to vote, and Russell decides to vote out Jerri, sending her to the jury as its ninth and final member.
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