Midnight in the statue storage vault

here if you hadn’t said, “Let them eat cake.”

Davis: Enough, you two. Hey, why don’t we play Twenty Questions again? That always makes the time go by.

Lee: OK, I’m thinking of something.

Rizzo: Animal, vegetable or mineral?

Lee: Animal.

Serra: Heathen?

Lee: Yes.

Leopold: Royal blood?

Lee: No.

Stalin: Enemy of the people?

Lee: Heavens, no.

Rizzo: Lawbreaker?

Lee: No.

Rhodes: If it’s from that blasted Civil War of yours again, I’m not playing.

Jackson: It’s your stupid horse, Bob, Traveller. You choose it every time.

Lee: Right!

Stalin: Why just 20 questions? In Russia, we asked lots more questions when we interrogated them, but whatever the answers, we shot them. Much simpler.

Colston: Hey! The door’s opening. I think we’re getting some new people.

Serra: No one you or I would know, Ed, I’m sure. We’re the wrong vintage.

Stalin: Hey Woodrow, come on in!

Adam Hochschild is a historian, journalist, author of 10 books and lecturer at the UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism.

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