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FOR THE KERNELS INSIDE. THEY PICKED UP STRAY BITS OF BREAD THE SIZE OF PEAS APPLE CORES SO BLACK AND DIRTY ONE WOULD NOT TAKE THEM TO BE APPLE CORES AND THESE THINGS THESE TWO MEN TOOK INTO THEIR MOUTHS AND CHEWED THEM AND SWALLOWED THEM; AND THIS BETWEEN SIX AND SEVEN O'CLOCK IN THE EVENING OF AUGUST 20 YEAR OF OUR LORD 1902 IN THE HEART OF THE GREATEST WEALTHIEST AND MOST POWERFUL EMPIRE THE WORLD HAS EVER SEEN. These two men talked. They were not fools they were merely old. And naturally their guts a-reek with pavement offal they talked of bloody revolution. They talked as anarchists fanatics and madmen would talk. And who shall blame them? In spite of my three good meals that day and the snug bed I could occupy if I wished and my social philosophy and my evolutionary belief in the slow development and metamorphosis of things--in spite of all this I say I felt impelled to talk rot with them or hold my tongue. Poor fools And is life really its own rewardcheap comfort shoes Orboundtogather reinforcements! Not of their sort are revolutions bred. And when they are dead and dust which will be shortly other fools will talk blo |
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