The Quiet Corner
656 T H E C O M M O N W E A L November 4, I925 URSULINE ACADEMY, Grand Concourse (East 165th Street), New York City PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Resident and Day Pupils Boys admitted to the...
...No matter into how many little parts they break, not even one of these little parts can ever take a wife...
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...12~Nationallem and Domestic Intolerance Nov...
...A thousand years without a mate...
...the psychic friction, once contact is established, is inevit . . . Ah there, my size...
...29--Nationalism as a Religion Nov, 5--Nationalism and International War Nov...
...Have found intellectual life rather boggy...
...April I, 817.-Still there is consolation: Amoebas have no mates...
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...O my gosh...
...You feel the sting of the evolutionist...
...AU this morning after being born into my new life, I meditated piously...
...The physical attraction of one to the other is irresistible...
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...The first question I proposed to myself was this---Why of all males, must I mate myself to Tessie--of all females--in each plane of my existence ? April 2.--Ha--I have the answer...
...Frankfort mad Jacob Streets, New York City hypocritical blubber !--I think I shall dash my brains out on yonder rocks...
...O, dear...
...Ah there...
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...From each of these singles, the friction sparks of discord and the black bile of melancholy emanated almost continuously...
...This feature of our organization accounts to a large ex- tent for the long list of representative concerns that have continued to send us their printing orders for many years...
...only had half a thought in the past year...
...but as a flea--O, dear reel April 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Io.--Quarreled...
...Flea :--April I, 815.--It is pleasant to be a flea...
...Thursday Evenings at 8:15 on NATIONALISM *'The most important problem confronting the world today'" Oct...
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...But amoebas have no voices . . . And again they can have no mates . . . Never I Never ! Not ever ! Not even hardly ever--'" Doctor Angelicus was in tears---"You see, Hereticus...
...and with a woman's intuition followed me into fleadom...
...O my Tessie...
...What flea could be more melancholy than I? Tessie ? Yes, Tessie, with me again...
...A thousand years without a Tessie...
...Pon my word, who can she be---this most comely and seductive flea-flapper who preens herself on the back of yon aristocratic pomeranian...
...Oh, to remain a man, a human being--even to the end--articulate...
...Goodness me !--A thousand years from now the little part of an amoeba that still is me, will be alone in the world...
...and ever since the two complementary halves have gone wandering about in space, never resting until they have met up one with the other...
...656 T H E C O M M O N W E A L November 4, I925 URSULINE ACADEMY, Grand Concourse (East 165th Street), New York City PRIVATE SCHOOL FOR GIRLS Resident and Day Pupils Boys admitted to the Elementary Departments Chartered by the University o~ the State o~ New York Carlton J. H. Hayes, Ph.D., LL.D...
...It is the reverse of the theory propounded by Plato: In the beginning, all people were singles---self-sufficient but atrabilious singles...
...Come be my protoplasmic bride...
...Where --in what plane of existence--are you ? Tessie...
...She choked on a six-foot seaman shortly after my whalish demise...
...Tessiel Come, be an amoeba...
...No matter how long they live, they can never marry...
...April I6.~Flew headfirst into the insect powder, praying the gods to deliver me from this deadliest female of all the species by reducing me to the plane of mere protoplasm . . . " 'Amoeba:~April 16, 816 A. D.---Anniversary of my birth into amoebadom...
...Tessie...
...As a whale, Tessie was bad enough...
...19~Nationallsm,--Curse or Blessing...
...But the gods, thinking to separate the elements which provoked the friction and brewed the bile, cleaved each of these creatures in two...
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...April 3.--I am married...
...What flea could be happier than I ? April 4.--Still married...
...22--The Propaganda of Nationalism Oct...
...April II, 12, I3, 14, I5.~Leading cat and dog life...
...First in thanksgiving for having been so far removed from the animal queendom of Tessie, the whaless, I resolved never to play the pest to anyone in all my life, but instead to become a kind of monastic flea, a sort of insect ascetic spending his time in the contemplation of the Why, the Whatness and the Wherefore...
...April I, 8IS.~Amoebas have no mates...
Vol. 2 • November 1925 • No. 26
