one becomes the authorizer and creates a new social rationality. All those who may have looked askance at this bandit must come to share this narrative and get inside this world of memory and magnetism if they wish to be insiders. The narrative thus is not simply about the person of David, but about the entire company of those who did not doubt that this one was the wave of God’s future. The earlier one joins up, the more fully is this “our truth.” The ones who were with David at the start claim