V. - like going to war
Jedrzej Polak
jedpolak at mac.com
Thu Sep 20 05:05:34 CDT 2001
"I must return to the battle", the Gaucho said, breathless. He stood for a
moment watching the carnage. "But don't they look like apes, now, fighting
over a female? Even if the female is named Liberty". He drew a long pistol,
checked the action. "There are nights", he mused, "nights, alone, when I
think we are apes in a circus, mocking the ways of men. Perhaps it is all a
mockery, and the only condition we can ever bring to men a mockery of
liberty, of dignity. But that cannot be. Or else I have lived..."
Some of us, methinks, sport bigger banana than others, still it's only a
banana.
JP
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