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[Marsha quoting Kahlil]
> The Madman: The Blessed City by Kahlil
> Gibran
>
> In my youth I was told that in a certain city every
> one lived
> according to the Scriptures. And I said, "I will
> seek that city and
> the blessedness thereof." And it was far. And I made
> great provision
> for my journey. And after forty-days I beheld the
> city and on the
> forty-first day I entered into it.
>
> And lo! the whole company of the inhabitants had
> each but a single
> eye and but one hand. And I was astonished and said
> to myself, "Shall
> they of this so holy city have but one eye and one
> hand?"
>
> Then I saw that they too were astonished, for they
> were marvelling
> greatly at my two hands and my two eyes. And as they
> were speaking
> together I inquired of them saying, "Is this indeed
> the Blessed City,
> where each man lives according to the Scriptures?"
> And they said,
> "Yes, this is that city."
>
> "And what," said I, "hath befallen you, and where
> are your right eyes
> and your right hands?"
>
> And all the people were moved. And they said, "Come
> thou and see."
>
> And they took me to the temple in the midst of the
> city. And in the
> temple I saw a heap of hands and eyes. All withered.
> Then said I,
> "Alas! what conqueror hath committed this cruelty
> upon you?"
>
> And there went a murmur amongst them. And one of
> their elders stood
> forth and said, "This doing is of ourselves. God
> hath made us
> conquerors over the evil that was in us."
>
> And he led me to a high altar, and all the people
> followed. And he
> showed me above the alter and inscription graven,
> and I read:
>
> "If thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out and cast
> it from thee;
> for it is profitable for thee that one of thy
> members should perish,
> and not that thy whole body should be cast into
> hell. And if thy
> right hand offend thee, cut if off and cast it from
> thee; for it is
> profitable for thee that one of th members should
> perish, and not
> that thy whole body should be cast into hell."
>
> Then I understood. And I turned about to all the
> people and cried,
> "Hath no man or woman among you two eyes or two
> hands?"
>
> And they answered me saying, "No, not one. There is
> none whole save
> such as are yet too young to read the Scripture and
> to understand its
> commandment."
>
> And when we had comeout of the temple, I straightway
> left that
> Blessed City; for I was not too young, and I could
> read the scripture.
>
>
>
>
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