Subject: vocational already

From: "Amabel Dickerson" <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 31 Jul 2006 10:00:30 +0800

Yes, then and in sleep he is sometimes happytill he wakes to the sorrow of the day.
What has the Baas been doing all the afternoon in this dullplace? Ask my wife here, whom you know, if Iam not Hassan.
Then he stared up into its branches,where he discovered a monkey sitting. I got up, then said:One more question before I go, Kaneke.
Or, rather, I was that already, a diviner and amaster of spells, like my fathers before me.
I am Hassan, whose face thespirits have changed in the night.
Yes, she said, you are Hassan and my lord. Yes, there he sits inHassans robes and says that he is Hassan.
You see, Macumazahn, I am a slave who has become amaster, and they do not forget it.
But what was within it which escapes at last and isno more seen? Thus, and withthe help of trade, I became rich and powerful as I am today.
So much that I cannot remember all, Macumazahn. There is a legend that she is an angel who sinned andfell from heaven.
Then I suppose that she is a water-spirit. You and I have oftendiscussed the mysteries of the African forms of taboo.
There is a legend that she is an angel who sinned andfell from heaven.
Then I suppose that she is a water-spirit.
I knew that it was there,but he did not seem to have noticed it. At night I am a hermit, for then I commune with heaven.
There they stoodhuddled together behind the Arabs, staring. Whatever his object,certainly the man could not be trusted. The light of the rising sun struck into the tent.
Fasten back the sides of the tent that I may see, and give me theguns. There are fewzealots in this place, and I think no one who from time to timewill not drink a tot. I sighed as the truth of his words came home to me. But what was within it which escapes at last and isno more seen? Well, Zikalis ways are dark and strange,so I can almost believe it. Still, it is true that I wish to risk all and return, even if it beto die. In the daytime out yonderI worship the Prophet.
My people would notwelcome me, Macumazahn. These preliminaries finished, he remarked.