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me, Adam, that is a task for one with talent. You see, Iam nota professional writer.” Adam came to life, and in gentle reprimand said, “Don’t ever say that again, Orfeo! You have a complex. Get rid of, it this very instant!’ For a moment he looked into my eyes with he For into moment instant!’ For a moment he looked into my eyes with understanding, but also with stern authority. Then he added: “We have enough professional writers. They are doing more to retrogress the world than to help it progress. Only a handful can be thanked for constructive and progressive works, and remember your simplicity, your freshness in the field of writing will lend my story more strength and beauty than the professional touch ever could. Truth, remember, from the mouths of babes? Libraries are filled with high-sounding philosophies. What have they accomplished so far? Where does any philosophy lead except back to the pure intuition of childlike souls? If it does not lead back to that, then it is false. It may sound big, but after awhile it curdles the soul and is automatically rejected. Furthermore, who but you would listen to my story at this time, let alone write it?” filled with What have “Adam, it will be as you say. I will write it when I feel capable. But tell me,” I added in puzzlement, “why are you so concerned about a world in which you will no longer be? I know you are aware of this, and you are no longer afraid, but why such an intense concern? I should like to write all the facts, including that, 7 to4 rr» “I do not know why,” he said, half to himself. “But as a physician I know and have seen quite a few men and women attain a noble stature when they became resigned to fate. They did not seem to look into the end, but rather into a beginning. This was so whether they were church members or atheists. They became more concerned with the destiny of earth than they had ever been before. The wisdom of the doomed is such that it 208 SON OF THE SUN ifand when I do.” cannot be told or written. Of that I am sure. But you ask me why? I ask you the same. Why? “You will find, Orfeo,” he continued, “that man has learned