Glenn Hughes Began Another Screenplay

A Work in Progress
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Let’s assume that by 1958 Glenn Hughes had read Isaac Asimov’s Foundation trilogy, published in 1951, 52, and 53.  From this came his idea for another screenplay where an older building on the campus of the University of Washington was the hub of a secret in plain sight, another type of Second Foundation dedicated to the survival of the human species.  A place where scholars kept in touch with ancient texts and philosophers, a place of great learning and patient understanding, a place where civilization would be saved when…

Donal sat on the steps of Denny Hall and sang while playing his guitar...

When you’ve been trumped, you cannot play for time

for your cards have been moved to another’s

you must wait then ante up and play once again

while you stay at the table with your brothers

When you’ve been trumped you must play a long game

For time’s on your side as all things decline

Before he can fail, he must first succeed

Posturing dominance vulpine lupine

Cast in crypto-gold to look like Caesar

Acting as if there’s no law can bind him

He’s going to say something outrageous each day

Sometimes led on by his keepers sometimes at whim

When you’ve been trumped watch out for madmen

Crazed with power and enabling a king

Trading votes in order to pay homage at court

Unable to see their king’s gone ding-a-ling

When you’ve been trumped it’s just a defeat

Victory comes when voters cast ballots

Having seen the mad king and his court at work

Next year the country will cast out some bigots

When you’ve been trumped you must play a long game

For time’s on your side as all things decline

Before he can fail, he must first succeed

Posturing dominance vulpine lupine

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