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White and unemployed Englishmen got up before dawn at North Shields last week, strode like burly ghosts down the long black wharf of the Lyle Line, massed in truculent formation before the door of a shanty where seamen would be signed on for the dingy S. S. Cape Verde...
...with two friends marched out with shotguns to the Harris cabin to "teach that damn nigger a lesson." Harris met them with a volley of buckshot, dropped Clayton dead in his tracks, fled for the Mississippi swamps. All night 200 men and boys searched for him, found him at dawn, cringing in an empty barn. They lugged him up to the levee, mocked his yammerings for mercy. "De Lord save me-" cried Harris as guns cracked about him, shots riddled his body...
Returning to his house after an all-night party last week with a young actress, who had had a small part in Bedbug, Vladimir Mayakovsky sat down in the grey dawn and began to write...
...Lewis reasoning: "In the dawn of civilization every happening was accounted for by analogies to human purpose and its later fulfillment. Thus Cause and Effect were regarded as a generalized purpose and fulfillment, purpose always coming first. Many of our scientific ideas, such as force and energy, are relics of that...
Inspired by the ten commandments of Tia Juana and the sermon on Monte Carlo the sons of the prophet of prosperity feed on the manna provided each chilly dawn at morning prayer. Faith in the ultimate victory of the pulpit in the spiritual contest against chance and fate is swelling the ranks of the believers. Traditional forms of worship--Isis, Dionysius, the Eleusinian mysteries, Mammon himself--are flicked out of consciousness by the true followers, the faithful who abide by the tenets of the spokesman of the divine decree...