The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-04-17
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al snch, and our friend crouched before him
shvping his knees, pouring out words of every
color; su M
"Well then, don't ask what you believe! 1
don't ask what you think! / ask what do you
dow
So he smashed into that confusion of IDEAS
languages and gestures which has lasted without
a stop since the time it prevented the tower of
Babel from reaching from earth to the sky.
"Say, look :"
But they didn't see anything!
The other man sat there without any more to
say than a Quilted fish, because if he had spoken
he would have had to say 'I'm only rag" and
nobody likes to present himself in such a light
And after having been turned upside down by
the sincerity of the one he was turned downside
Eh N the m5tKing laugher Of the Others.
! $50 then he fling at us just the opposite of
SfA We expected from him! He said: 'sYou
must be believers"
"Be UhGt, did you say?'
believers! You must throw away the old
things you believed in, but not the beautiful
power to believe"
And with one blow he separated those two diff
ferent things
He lifted his eyes to the immense empty sky
and he went so far as to add that miracles Sleep
and sometimes they awake.
| like Jesus, in spite of his trousers and coat. Be
cause it's not certain that Jesus believed in God
as those who talked for him said; it's quite pos
sble that, on the contrary, he wanted to free men
from God.
Well, however it was, people kept away from
him. They thot, "Me, I'm not bad, but maybe
he'll catch someone else up like that; l don't
want to be scraped like that"
In fact, everybody was hostile to him.
You can imagine what eommoton there was
getting ready for military retreat thru the viii
lEgD ats hight ysdl roi qoow odv oaoAs
In the crowd there was a Negro. The Negro
was the center of an attentive circle, gances and
stares turned upon him like the spokes of
wheel
"What a difference between him and us Sex-
claimed someone
''What a resemblancew answered the Crier.
Someone else said:
"Ie always has to disagree with everyonev'
But he showed that there were differences of
surface between all those who were standing in
the crowd, that you could see right away in pass
ing; but under these differences were endless
kesenblances that you could only see when you
clipped to look. Because man is always a
fnAE sometimes he's black, sometimes he's white
Ibut he's always red
That, and the military retreat, made people
think about the war that was being made up
there, and about the bands of men in the trenches
struggling in lakes of slime and filth leaning
forward like the fgureheads of ships, and of the
dazzling massacres, and then as far as eyes could
see across the fields, of the heaps of carrion and
garbage And beyond that, how many invisible
families l3nQ "a o5 ~ 1RE1 ore
A pregnant woman, pale, with hollow eyes and
barcS teeth, (she had a mask of death, this
do~bIy sacrificed creature), stared at the horizon,
down there, down there i.
He lifted up his hand so that they could see
that hand, and said that the hand at the end of
an arm is a peaceful hand. Has it claws? No.
pfIInot a weapon, it is tool 1t is made for
making things
IN thatt true, let's quietly work out our des-
tiny" said reasoner.
mo, because it is a false destiny, Unanswered
by others than ourselves. To do, you must first
undo" r le gg vs
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