Evening star., 1938-12-23
sion 10 times as rapid as the former
instance-and with q vastly greater

sion 10 times as rapid as the former
instance-and with q vastly greater
range.
Rephrase Chiffan's Words.
One evening Rud found himself
eloquent upon this point, rephrastng
and greatly improving-some OF
Chiffan's remembered wisdom.
Revolution so far!" said Rud.
Bah! ."
Just class pickering, rows in the
street, changes of management!
The mere beginnings.
The real revolution" he weht on,
lis still going about the world like
mighty spirit seeking a body. For
couple of centuries now the world
has been troubled by needs that
have never once found a suitable
working expression. All the time
the stress has been getting worse
Life gets more unbalanced, more
dislocated, clumsier and more
abundant. Then tension of popu-
lation increases. More and more
people suffer. Pointlcss, silly, bloody
warfare Pointless, silly, bloodless
unemployment! This real revolu-
ton going about the world"
Like an evil SPIRIT" said one of
the models.
mo! A great spirit, monstrous
spirit beyond good and evil, resolved
to embody itself somehow ="
Steenhold murmured approval
Beyond Good and Evil" he thought.
"Nietzsche! Good"
Il tell you," said Rud, becoming
more and more prophetic in his
manner, social trouble has been
growing and growing ever since
civilization began to use money and
roads and ships. All the religions
all the loyalties of the past 5000
years, are just the childish pal
llatives, the insufficient clothes. the
shapes men have tried to impose
upon this growing monstrousness to
prevent it from disorganizing life
too frightfully.
And it's growing noW-faster
than ever-alWays more intolerant
OF these shreds and patches, these
GulllVer strings, we put about it."
"Gulllver strings?" queried Steen-
hold, and then with delight: "Oh!
CULVER strings, tying him!"
Getting Impatient.
Yes, tying him." said Rud. "The
real revolution, mind you, will never
endure these limitations for
another 10 years. Damn you, il
says to us, 'clothe me properly
equip me properly! 1 am the Age
OF Plenty, I am the new life The
new world is getting impatient. II
is a new life-absolutely-and il
wants the shape and it wants the
Endorsement of new life. Com
munlsm wasn't enough for it. Not
nearly enough. A mere feud OF
existing classes. The new world has
to burst all these racial and ma
tlonal and class ideas, Fascism
Judaism, Nazism. Sovietism. by
which people are trying to incarnate
it. 1t is bursting them now. They
are being tried and found wanting
All OF them. They were all expert
ments. All experiments. Tempo
rary-to the last degree. 1t is the
turn OF our generation, of our sort
now, to try and fit the case better
IL mas come to us, now. Now! NOW!
We have to solve the problem or
go down in our turn. Go down
And every generation that goes
down will go down heavier. There
IS no fury like revolution frus-
trated-no disorder like a world ir
which new pattern of living has
tailed to realize itself"
Now that's real stuff. Rud," sale
Steenhold.' That's real live stuff
That goes on to something. Tha
goes on"
But don't quite see" begar
a spectacled Bloomsbury intellectual
sitting on the floor and nursing hi.
knees.
II tell you, he's fine" shouted
Steenhold, quenching the interven.
ton. Let's have more of it. Rud
Tell us some more"
That's the gist of it," said Rud.
He was trying to remember eX.
actly what he had said He himself
felt he had said something fine. II
was like his first outbreak of elo-
auence at the Union all over again.
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