Confessions to a Heathen Idol

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V MA BELLE AND TOM DISCUSS THE PROBLEM- NOVEL 24TH: ?This afternoon Ma Belle came to see me and found me in the very good company of Mr. Omar Khayyam (although probably you and your brother gods would deem him lacking in true reverence). Ma Belle asked me at once: An Omar dis- Why are you reading...
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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER V MA BELLE AND TOM DISCUSS THE PROBLEM- NOVEL 24TH: ?This afternoon Ma Belle came to see me and found me in the very good company of Mr. Omar Khayyam (although probably you and your brother gods would deem him lacking in true reverence). Ma Belle asked me at once: An Omar dis- Why are you reading that book to-day 1 cussion u oh, because I am trying to find out what I am and who God is I answered craftily, knowing that retribution would follow swiftly. I can tell you what you are this ire must make minute?you are a goose. And as to who the lest of t)m Go(j may be?that is none of your business, scenery nor mine. It is our business to guide our little shallops adown the stream of the years as best we can and not be fidgeting overwhere we are going to land or where the river flows to. The scenery may be poor? A mental just low meadows and marshes: but it is our raee-tracknot a good invest- business to make the best of it and the most ment beautiful of it too; marshes are n't so bad at noon when the dragon-flies are glinting above the reeds, or at sunset when sluggish waters best reflect the sky. As to the Crea- tor, it is impertinent and futile curiosity on your part to be questioning about the way He runs the universe. If you go on like this your thoughts will make a race-track of your mind and gallop around and around on it, never arriving anywhere and wearing you out meanwhile. Turn your questionings out to pasture, my dear, and you will feel much more comfortable and live a healthier life. October 30TH: ?Another call from Mr. Mor- ris this evening. I do not know why I Extreme unc should discuss his calls with you, Small Idol, Kon when almost every evening the drawing-room is frequented by people far more interest...