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Updated: June 22, 2025
It contained the third movement of the symphony and a covering letter: "Dear Father Stuart Thario General I shall not finish this letter tonight; it will be sent with as much of the First Symphony as makes a worthy essence when it goes. The great and small alike achieve fulfillment, satisfaction must this be a ruthless denial of all between?
I went home and thought about George Thario and carried my history of the Grass up until the time it crossed Hollywood Boulevard. July 27: The Grass is now in Ostend, definitely in sight from the coast. July 28: Grass in Dunkirk. July 29: F astounded me this morning by coming to The Ivies, an unprecedented thing.
Miss Francis and Preblesham, at opposite ends of the intellectual scale, both maundering on about doing the Will of God and General Thario talking about marks on foreheads what sort of feebleminded, retrogressive world was I living in? All the outworn superstitions of religion taking hold of people and intruding themselves into otherwise normal conversation.
Leaving matters in the able hands of General Thario, after warning Joe he had better soon return to his father's assistance, I went abroad to arrange for wider European representation. There I found a curious eagerness to be of help to me and almost fawning servility antipathetic to my democratic American notions.
I shook my head. How could I fly in the face of commonsense to gratify the silly whim of an old man whose intelligence was clearly not what it had once been? "I was afraid not," he muttered, "afraid not. I don't blame you, Albert. Though I refuse, I am still guilty ... Cannibal Thario, they said ... Chronos would be better ... classical allusion escapes the enlistedman...."
Le ffaçasé showed no reluctance as why indeed should he? to continue as managingeditor and acted toward me as though there had never been any previous association, but I did not object to this harmless eccentricity as a smallerminded person might have. As publisher I named General Thario. I never knew exactly what purpose a publisher serves, but it seemed necessary for every newspaper to have one.
Outside of General Thario there was not another man in my organization I could trust so implicitly.
What on earth Consolidated Pemmican could do with a musician and a draftevader as generalmanager even if the title, as it must be, were purely honorary I couldnt imagine. I had been long up, shaved and breakfasted and had attended to my correspondence, before the telephone rang and George Thario announced himself at my disposal. He was what people call a handsome young man.
This last experiment proved too reckless, for enough of these adventurers were located to permit their annihilation by longrange artillery. "Their endurance is incredible, magnificent," eulogized General Thario enthusiastically.
"I have come a long way with you since then, Albert, through shady deals and brilliant coups and dark passages which would not bear too much investigation. I'm afraid I cannot go any further with you. You will have to get someone else to kill civilization." "As you choose, General Thario," I agreed stiffly. "Wait, I'm not finished. I have always tried, however inadequately, to do my duty.
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