[{"node":{"title":"Parker008","Collections":"Hopdance","Contributor":"Linen Hall Library","Coverage":"1970","Creator":"Linen Hall Library","Date":"Tuesday, April 26, 2016","Format":"TIFF","Identifier":"Parker008","Item Description":"Manuscript","Keywords":"Consulate, Socialist","Language":"English","Path":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/content/parker008","Publisher":"Linen Hall Library","Relation":"Linen Hall Library","Rights":"Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike CC BY-NC-SA","Scanned image":{"src":"https://www.niliteraryarchive.com/sites/default/files/Parker008_0.jpg","alt":""},"Source":"LHL Archive","Transcript":"\ufeff- 6 -\n\n The consulate flags hung limp in the rain, as if shamed by the moral\nforce of their frail protest. You were given a placard to carry, reading\nMake Babies Not Freakshows, and you felt foolish. As though you had any\nacquaintance with babies, as though a sodden handful of students outside\nthe U.S. consulate-general, in a dwarfish and absurd province, was likely to\nfend off nuclear armageddon, was not in itself a sad little freakshow,\nFalshaw, student journalist, fat and pustular, confronts you with his round\nred comedian face, on the picket line.\n\n -How\u2019s the daemon lover, then?\n\n -Depends. Is it some daemon who loves me, or me who\u2019s supposed to\n\nlove some daemon?\n\n -Both in your case, I'd say.\n\n -How about the revolution?\n\n -Delayed for the time being, on account of industrial action, listen,\n\nyou haven\u2019t joined the Labour Club yet, people are beginning to talk.\n\n -I prefer writing to joining.\n\n -What you are, Toshy, is what I call a gut socialist. You feel it deep\ndown but you don't think it through, that's okay, we need your type in the\nmovement too.\n\n -I may have a couple of instincts that I'm prepared to credit. I'm not\nprepared to institutionalise them, though, not quite yet.\n\n -Bourgeois individualism very big danger, artistic types much prone to\nit. Beware.\n\n A gnarled and greasy man, his eyes balefully magnified by slablike\nglasses, passed by on a circuit of his own, counterclockwise to theirs, clad\nin a sandwich-board proclaiming Christ Said, Ye Must Be Born Again.\n\n -Christ was the first socialist, you know, Falshaw told the man as he\n","Type":"Text"}}]