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government. He was disgusted and he went out and started
writing funny stories and he wrote one about a stupid old
man who was fighting windmills, and he gave him the name
Don Quixote. Of course that was Cervantes, whose play is
now on Broadway at $24 a seat.

Joe wound up with Whitman's highest value being on
his fellow man and one of his famous poetic lines, saying
that "He who offends illegible my fellow man, offends me." Maybe
Job had the right word, "When he hath tried me, I shall
come forth as gold." Maybe that's the way to go, but
I think the message for us here is that we should be aware
as educated people that it's not odd to find that there is
no system of reward and punishment that matches our idea of
good and evil.

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