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appointments hours in advance so that Krazy will be in the right place
at the right time to be hit by a brick. Somewhere in this single-minded
effort there must be passion, but
it
is not apparent, it is all channeled
constructively into planning and action: Ignatz's
mhier
is to hit Krazy
on the head with a brick. The overt passion is all on Krazy's side; he
can never get used to the routine, but waits every moment like a bride
for the expected ecstasy, the blow always new and always the same and
wonderful, the recurrent climax and reward of love. "L'il dahlink," Krazy
murmurs as the brick comes-ZIP through the air and POW when it
hits-"l'il dahlink, is there anybody in this wail more constint than
him?"
Offissa Pup, the guardian of law, loves Krazy, with the gentle
and protecting love of the practical man for the poet and dreamer–
"Dear K," he says of Krazy, "his life is warped with fancy, woofed with
dreams." Offissa Pup's occupation is to keep Ignatz from throwing the
brick and to put him in jail when he has thrown it.
Offissa Pup is the sole authority in the universe and Ignatz the
sole evildoer. Evil always triumphs-Ignatz always throws the brick;
but authority always triumphs, too-lgnatz is always put in jail. Krazy
lives happily between the two. It is a very nice universe for Krazy; if
PRESENTING
A KIERKEGAARD
ANTHOLOGY
EDITED BY ROBERT BRETALL
Wit, eloquence, and extraordinary spiritual insight are the quali–
ties that have given the Danish writer Kierkegaard his current
spectacular influence in the English-speaking world. As
Time
said, "Had this philosopher and mystic not written in a minor
language his fame would have resounded with that of Carlyle,
Nietzsche, and Dostoevski.
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