One period before the U.S. elections, you install a lock and chained urn and customers – those with an American passport in 1 hand and a glass of whisky or Bloody Mary in the another – make a saloon of this choice. This customized has become the most reliable poller, whose results are regularly published, including by the "Herald Tribune". Since 1924, only 4 times have been wrong, in 1976, 2004, 2016, and this year, as Kamala Harris had just 5 votes ahead of Trump here.
But, yes, Trump's triumph was inevitable, convinces Bob, 1 of the guests of the bar with the Tricky Snail in hand (gin, anise, white mint liqueur, lime, egg protein). He claims he voted for Harris, though he didn't believe in her winning. Why? “This is simply a sign of irrational fate,” he says. I don't believe in them, but I read them. Unpredictable fate. Like the future and that grim Trump whose only asset is this unpredictability. All we know is that the sum of the digits of his fresh name “47” – 47. president of America – is the sum of the letters D o n a l d T r u m p – 11, or 4 and 7. Of course, Bob has never heard of Mickiewicz's circumstantial numerology, and even more so about "Grandfathers", but the fever of increasing populism is no alien to him.
