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Chapter 14 Adam woke into just another desert morning, the sun already shining its brilliance upon the earth. He was alone in his little rented cabin. He felt as though he had awakened from a living dream which now insisted on being continued into his conscious state. All through the day it drenched his consciousness, as water drenches cloth. It was a day named Friday in a month called December, but to Adam it was just part of earth’s rotation basking in the face of the sun. There should be order and perfection, like symmetrical and desirable weather conditions, but the presence of high mountains upset this possibility. People should be aware of the grandeur in which they were immersed and which swirled majestically about them. But they were far more aware of the little things that faced them, like making the next hour of time productive of another dollar. Amid the perfect order of the cosmos, Adam saw the riotous state which ignorance had nurtured. Mountains caused storms, and mountains of ignorance caused havoc between his earth brothers. In the blindness of such ignorance, people even took each other’s lives; yes, took lives that required so much of the Creator to put into being. He had to divest himself of such enlightened vistas for all around him the best of earth was as yet a wilderness, and his best of friends could turn at any moment into 1c Came the sunset. As it slowly went beneath the horizon, he was left alone once more in the lonely exile of earth’s wilderness. He was hungry, but it was not only for food. He wanted something to eat, true enough, but he also longed for company, eat, true enough, but he also longed for company, companionship that would understand him, someone to whom he could pour out his soul before he should depart for Seattle but also for eat, true 204 ADAM SAYS GOODBYE crucifying maniacs.