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Port Perry Star (1907-2001), 26 Nov 1970, p. 18

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TB-PORT PERRY STAR -- Thursday, Nov. 26, 1970 that . want eve Robert Fair Was : anes He oven ; ant y : HE Pi $2 L Ti ite iF RFSice# He 44 ie iE aff fF i i ; The rod, my curiosity, has} {fontation with the cold, crow- : ded hostile, hungry, rushed é ' E TB taken me to sixteen and more of dis ios . world - the bristling bare] Whence he came. If he onds worth tance * horn of the bull. In the arena | MY articulate his hopes that yours is the earth and every- . this could be averted. If he | thing that's in it, and - which you will be apPreciative of the asteonomical chance of havi sidestepped the sweeping cape of Fate thus being raised only averaged neurotic. You will appreciate the fact that the only time the crowd went wild; that the only time there was a riot in the history of Port Perry High School occur- red when Mr. Macdonald threatened to buy a toupee and cover forever that shining, dealers in human flesh. At{heraldic symbol of the mas- length, my rod has led me to|culine order. You will be the proverbial mountain. Some | able to appreciate the pasteral claim Zeus inhabits the upper|imgenuousness of a blaring reaches and caverns. Others/headline announcing the next claim Mr. Litt. Hegardiess,|fight "Cartwright Garbage I'll venture that Mr. Litt can |Brigade Makes Clean Sweep". do as much damage in a pair| Yes, you will now be able to of sandals and a loincloth as jate the task at hand for you've seen a ray of light from the other side. Our task, graduates lies then in the shouldering of Sisyphuses boulder; of facing the naked horn. We acknow- lege the piccador's efforts - but he has only enraged the bull. Now we shall play the metador and make the kill - is more - you'll be a Man, my son! ir (Rudyard Kipling) If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs and blaming it on you. If you can trust yourself In saying farewell to things that have been beautiful, I say hello to things ugly and hideous, But I want everything out of my life and I hope to bring some degree of child- hood prettiness to the ugli- ness I see. I hope my fellow graduates, good fortune will allow you to do the same. And I would remind you of MI Jerry Cole's solemn lit- de proverb overheard after one of Port Perry's greatest pyrrhic victories. He said "Watson, it's not so much the winning, the broken fingers or even the dead bodies, it's just that they got the hell out there and fought." infinite facilities of man; the galatial space about us. Tt has_led me to curious markets where I've met all types of merchants - dealers in ideas; dealers in machines; brook build into a stream, into a river, doubling, tripling If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, or, being lied about, don't deal in lies, or, being hated, don't give way to hating, and yet don't look too good, nor talk too wise: If you can dream - and not make dreams you master. If you can think - and not make thoughts your aim. If you can meet with Tri- umph and Disaster and treat those two impostors just the same; If you can bear to hear the truth you've spoken twist- ed by knaves to make a for fools, or watch the things you gave your life to broken chose to go out beyond in we came forth upon this im} ore eee " "| drink more heartily - who a a gt the | Were fascinated by the poss- merrier the propestion » | ibility of creating but one z a : ripple on the soft, tranquil Fearing Lincoin's fate, I . - . Pastures and along still wat- ' ; approach. "Hi, I'm Robert. mountain, dark ominous sha- I represent the Qendante] ME ed enday etal - ey dows fall from the righted side BUSINESS and PROFESSIONAL DIRECTORY Call 985-7383 for prices on Low Cost Directory ads. mankind lies with us and the many like us. Ask yourselves how we would answer if "one' day the intellectuals of our country were to be interra- gated by the simplest of our people. They would be asked what they did when their nation died out slowly like a sweet fire, small and alone. No one would ask them about their dress, their long siestas) after lunch; no one would want to know about their sterile combats with "the idea of the nothing" No one would care about their higher fin- ancial learning. They wouldn't be questioned on Greek my-|' thology or regarding their self-disgust when someone! within them begins to die the coward's death. They would be asked nothing about their absurd justifications born in the shadow of the total lie. 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