Topdog/Underdog | Characters
Best Customer
The Best Customer is a “miscellaneous stranger” who visits the arcade daily to shoot Honest Abe. The Best Customer “[s]hoots on the left whispers on the right.” Link is unsure whether the Best Customer, a black male, knows that Link is also a “brother.” The Best Customer utters cryptic messages that possess a quasi-metaphysical quality. He goes so far as to whisper a message in Honest Abe’s ear after he has been shot. Link does not think much of the Best Customer, though, ironically, he acknowledges that the Best Customer “makes the...
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