False Entry
“Klanship.
YOU. YOU. YOU, YOU, you, you, you. I. There was not a face there, no matter its guilts or its sympathies, which was not for that one moment my enemy. And for the same reason—beneath all reasons. When the witness speaks, he brings the problem of truth into the room. There was not one man there who, for a moment, did not curl protectively around whatever secret he thought kept him in swinedom, wishing to be left in his sty with it, only not to have to aspire.
And I watched them with joy..., thinking I had found the adversary at last.
“Will the witness explain whom he means by ‘them’?”
So my preceptors had been correct—there were choices to be made. For the general “they” of the feared, we may choose our surrogates. The lie I told then was greater than any I told later. Much may be done in the name of justice by those avenging their childhoods.
“The Klan,” I said.
The word was new to the room. Everybody heard the echoes refuse it. Outside, a bird spoke, chelo, chelo, from siesta.MoreLess
YOU. YOU. YOU, YOU, you, you, you. I. There was not a face there, no matter its guilts or its sympathies, which was not for that one moment my enemy. And for the same reason—beneath all reasons. When the witness speaks, he brings the problem of truth into the room. There was not one man there who, for a moment, did not curl protectively around whatever secret he thought kept him in swinedom, wishing to be left in his sty with it, only not to have to aspire.
And I watched them with joy..., thinking I had found the adversary at last.
“Will the witness explain whom he means by ‘them’?”
So my preceptors had been correct—there were choices to be made. For the general “they” of the feared, we may choose our surrogates. The lie I told then was greater than any I told later. Much may be done in the name of justice by those avenging their childhoods.
“The Klan,” I said.
The word was new to the room. Everybody heard the echoes refuse it. Outside, a bird spoke, chelo, chelo, from siesta.MoreLess
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