K
ANSAN COMMENT
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Second spring
In a life of yesterdays, from which man draws his being for todays and reforms it for tomorrows, the sudden release of every grip that bound him to his life also releases, for a time at least, that iron hold of all the yesterdays.
The structure—in which or around which man has established himself—vanishes. Left is time for him to see the world and himself on no more basis than the present. And left is the necessity to see all else by himself, because he cannot then foresee what others will do.
Groups form, groups that will erect a new world facade. There are gatherings and movements that will congeal and shudder into motion with him. Or without him.
There are innumerable directions in which he can run, because the future as he and those who conceived him planned is ever more uncertain, ever more changeable as each day passes.
Look back to the time when cares were diurnal,when strictures and schedules were like those of trains. Read down southbound,
read up northbound, bus service to Hope available at Texarkana, serving of liquor banned in Arkansas.
The only recourse, and it a weak one.
The sterile hallways that encased and protected him from winter's vicious cold and the texts and notes that protected him from existential wandering are gone with flames and violence.
Walk. And think. Erase the thoughts and start again.
The past, which men decry yet depend upon, no longer helps. Man reverts to the Primitive, he cannot cope with the blaze of actions and his inaction.
In that time, he dies. Rebirth follows. Winter follows the spring that followed the winter. Yet the winter that kills this years' leaves is too harsh, leaving a permanent scar.
The flower that will bloom is the second spring of won't be the same. Nature won't allow them to replicate. That is the fear of those who predict harsh winters.
That is the fear today.
Monroe Dodd
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