From: Hammer Klavier <hklavier-AT-yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2000 21:03:43 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Test #6


a most pleasing text to revisit, machose lc.

"'a pardon for peppino!' yelled andrea, entirely roused from the state 
of torpor into which he had seemed to be plunged.  'why a pardon for him and
not for me?  we were to die together.  i was promised that he would die before
me.  you have no right to make me die alone.  i don't want to die alone!' 
and he broke away from the two priests, twisting, shouting, bellowing and
making insane efforts to break the ropes binding his hands.

the executioner made a sign to his two assistants, who jumped off the scaffold
and seized the prisoner.

'what's wrong?' franz asked the count.

'what is wrong?' the count repeated.  'don't you understand?  what's wrong 
is that this human being who is about to die is furious because his fellow
creature is not dying with him and, if he were allowed to do so, he would tear
him apart with his nails and his teeth rather than leave him to enjoy the
life of which he himself is about to be deprived.  oh men!  men!  race of
crocodiles, as karl moor says,' the count exclaimed, brandishing his two
clenched fists towards the heads of the crowd.  'how well i know you by your
deeds and how invariably you succeed in living down to what one expects
of you!'

andrea and the two assistant executioners were rolling around in the dust,
the prisoner still crying out: 'he must die, i want him to die!  you do not 
have the right to kill me alone!'

'look, look,' the count continued, grasping each of the two young men by 
the hand.  'look, because i swear to you, this is worthy of your curiosity.
here is a man who was resigned to his fate, who was walking to the scaffold
and about to die like a coward, that's true, but at least he was about to die
without resisting and without recriminations.  do you know what gave him that
much strength?  do you know what consoled him?  do you know what resigned him
to his fate?  it was the fact that another man was to share his anguish, 
that another man was to die like him, that another man was to die before him!
put two sheep in the slaughter-house or two oxen in the abbatoir and let one of
them realize that his companion will not die, and the sheep will bleat with
joy, the ox low with pleasure.  but man, man whom god made in his image, man
to whom god gave this first, this sole, this supreme law, that he should
love his neighbor, man to whom god gave a voice to express his thoughts -
what is man's first cry when he learns that his neighbor is saved?  A curse.
All honour to man, the masterpiece of nature, the lord of creation!'"


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