SUNDAY, MAY 13, 1923
THE MICHIGAN DAILY
rAGE FIVEB
SUNDX, MY 1, 193 TE MIHIGN DALY 'AGEFIV
Edited by Scogan
GOLD
'And sin." the news of the marriage (Annie's) he found that
his worship for her had by no means vanished; rather in his
heart was the eternal treasure of a happy love; untarnished and
spotless; it would be like a mirror of gold without alloy, bright
and lustrous forever. For Lucian it was no defect in the woman
than she was desirous and faithless; he had not conceived an
affection for certain moral or intellectual accidents, but for the
very woman . . . . He thought, sighing and with compas-
sion, of the manner in which men are continually led astray by
the cheat of their senses. In order that the unborn might still
be added to the born, nature had inspired men with the old
delusion that the bodily companionship of the lover and the !
beloved was desirable above all things, and so, by the false show
of pleasure the human race was chained to vanity and doomed
to a continual thirst for the non-existent . . . Again and
again he gave thanks for his own escape; he had been set free
from a life of vice and sin and folly, from all the dangers and
illusionsthat are mostdreaded by the wise . . . .For what
would be commonly the real woman hie now cared nothing;
. . . . be did not think of the frost-bitten leaves in the
winter as the real rose . . . But he preserved the pre-
cious flower in all its glory, not suffering it to wither in the hard
light, but keeping it in a secret place where it could never be
destroyed. Truly now and for the first time, he possessed Annie,
as a man possesses gold which he has dug from the rock and
purged of its baseness."-From "The Hill of Dreams," by Arthur
Machen.
CREATION
"Tian makes his God and places Him, with nothing to rest on,
in a Chaos, and imposes on Him the task ofintroducing life and
order, everything indeed, out of His own Divine Brains. To the
savage theologian and his more civilized successors that seems an
intelligent theory of the Universe. They fail to see that they have
merely removed the inevitable difficulty a stage further back.
(And we can understand the reply of the irritable old-world theo-
logian to one who asked what God was doing before the creation:
'He was making rods for the backs of fools.') For the Evolution
of a creator is no easier a problem than the Evolution of a
Cosmos,"-Havelock Ellis.
-r ILLUSION
"But the end of the rainbow is a bottomless gulf down which
you can fall forever without arriving, and the blue distance is a
void pit which can swallow you and all your efforts into its empti-
ness, and still be no less empty. You and all your efforts. So the
illusion of attainable happiness."-From "The Fox," by D. H.
Lawrence
DOGMA
"Man, as described by Quatrefages, is a religious animal. The
early naturalists said the same thing of the elephant; but while
this statement, which contains all the elements of a libel, has fallen
into disrepute, the former, little by little, has assunmed the purple
among accepted facts."-Edgar Saltus.
THOUGHT
"But with the invention of printing, thoughts spread so-
expeditiously that It became possible to acauire quite serviceable
ideas without the trohble of thinking; and very few of us since
have cared to risk impairment of our minds by using them."-
T-James Branch Cabell.
BANG!
"There Is nothing by which men display their character so
;Huth as in what they consider rediculous."-Goethe.
DINNER
"After all, the Muses are women, and you must be a man to possess
them-properly"
Aubrey Beardsley at the table.
CARL SANDBURG country and buried with a nation-
wide funeral service. There was a
(Continued from Page One) I grand parade, there were huge crowds
And then, when the big fight was f gathered, and there were polished
over, and the war-inflamed enthusiasm speeches of condolence, praise, ,and
of the nation was beginning to fail, mourning, by prosprous ytratOr,
there was a great ceremony. It was a Sandburg listened to the oratory of
ceremony designed to recognize and these worthies, but he listened still
t flatter .the common people-to bol- 'omcre closely to the words of another
ster up their somewhat frayed patriot- speaker-one who did not appear on
ism, and remind them of losses inflict- the official programs:
ed by enemies, and deeds of heroisffi1 le had a gunny-sack shirt over his
performed by their own brothers and bones,
pals. The body of an unidentified And he lifted an elbow socket over
buck private was brought to tlis his head,
And he lifted a skinny signal finger. Elbows ankles white line slants-
And he had nothing to say, nothing**
easy- And the hoofs of the skeleton horses
He mentioned ten million men, men- all drum on the asphalt footing-
tioned them as having gone west. so soft is the drumming, so soft the
mentioned them as shoving up roll call
th daisies. of the grinning srgeants calling teu
We' eculd write it all on a postage roll call-
stamp, what he said. * *it.
Ie said it and quit and faded away, Skeleton men and boys riding skele-
A gunnysack shirt on his bones. ton horses.
An; as thisc orator disappears, those Again, of course, we are up against
vhs are lookino see a thought that is not pretty. aut Sand-
Skeleton men and boys riding skele- burg does not worship prettiness:
ton horses, what he is after is the truth as he sees
tIe rib tones shine, the rib hones the truth. He believes that the pom-
curve. pous burial of the "buck private" was
shine with savage, elegant curves- a bitter farce, and he says that he
a jawbcne runs a long white slant, believes it. He believes that we are
A skull dome runs a long white cowards, bunk-shooters, and fools,
arch, .and he calls us cowards, bunk-shoot-
bone triangles click and rattle, (Continued on Page Seven)
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