The Letter Killeth
““Keep the commandments.” The young man already did, and so, too, did Fred. “If you would be perfect, sell all you have, give it to the poor, and come follow me.” Like the rich young man, Fred had always turned sadly away from that counsel. He excused himself in part by saying that the legal complications of divesting himself of the enormous wealth his father had left him made it all but impossible. Besides, what right did he have to deprive his son of that patrimony? Bill had an independent leg...acy, of course, but compared with what he might inherit it seemed, in a Fenster perspective, modest. So Fred had settled for imitation poverty. He lived as simply as anyone whose sole income was Social Security. But of course it was a pretense, and he knew it, and was ashamed.
In his political phase, he had been a generous contributor to the causes he espoused, Gene McCarthy, Senator McGovern, Greenpeace; voices crying in the wilderness they had seemed, but what if they had been successful?MoreLess
In his political phase, he had been a generous contributor to the causes he espoused, Gene McCarthy, Senator McGovern, Greenpeace; voices crying in the wilderness they had seemed, but what if they had been successful?MoreLess
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