正文 The Crisis

-- On the dedication page of the rebellion, we see the words "To Clementine." A fiiment, miscellaneous an musiext, and, turning several pages, massed e flags at the head of the n. This will not be easy, but her will it be hard. Good will is everywhere, and the lighthearted song of the gondoliers is heard in the distance.

-- Yes, success is everything. Morally important as well as useful in a practical way.

-- What have the rebels captured thus far? One zoo, not our best zoo, and a cemetery. The rebels have ehe cages of the tamer animals and are playing with them, gently.

-- Things get better, and in my opinion will.

-- Their Graves Registration procedures are scrupulous -- accurate and fair.

-- Theres more to it than playing guitars and clapping along. Although that frequently gets people in the mood.

-- Their methods are direot subtle. Dissolution, leag, sandblasting, crag aing of fireproof doors, nation, water damage, slide presentations, clamps and buckles.

-- And skepticism, although absolutely necessary, leads to not very much.

-- The rebels have eaten all the grass on the spacious lawns surrounding the Presidents heart. That vast an, the Presidents heart, beats now on a bald plain.

-- It depends on what you want to do. Sometimes people dont know. I mean, dont know even that.

-- Clementine is thought to be one of the great rebel leaders of the half tury. Her hat has four cockades.

-- I loved her for a while. Then, it stopped.

-- Rebel T-shirts, camouflaged as ordinary T-shirts by an intense whiteness no eye pierce, are worn everywhere.

-- I dont know why it stopped, it just stopped. Thats happened several times. Is something wrong with me?

-- Closely supervised voting iher tons produced results clearly favorable to her fa, but rather a sort of generalized approbation which could be appropriated by anyone who had need of it.

-- A greater tration on one person than you normally find. Then, zip.

-- Three or four photographs of the rebel generals, tinted glasses, blond locks blowing in the wind, have been released to the world press, in billboard size.

-- Whenever I go there, oroliner, I begin quietly thinking about how to help: better planning, more careful ma, a more equal distribution of ine, education. Or something new.

-- There have been mistakes. No attempt was made to seize Broadcasting House -- a fual error. The Household Cavalry was not subverted, distented junior officers of the regular forces were not sought out and offered promotions, or money. . .

-- Yes, an afternoon on the links! Id never been out there before -- so green and full of holes and flags. Im afraid we got in the eople were shouting at us to get out of the way. We had thought theyd let us just stand there and look or walk around and look, but apparently thats not done. So we went to the pro shop aed some clubs and bags, and put the bags on our shoulders, and that got us by for a while. We walked around with our clubs and bags, enjoying the cool green and the bright, attractive sportswear of the other partits. That helped some, but we were still under some mysterious system of rules we didnt uand, always in the wrong place at the wrong time, it seemed, yelled at and bumping into people. So finally we said to hell with it ahe links; we didnt want to spoil anybodys fun, so we took the bus back to town, first returning the clubs and bags to the p

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