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The Second Coming

The Second Coming

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Autoren: Walker Percy
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use. “Did you and she—?”
    â€œHardly.”
    â€œDoes hardly mean yes or no?”
    â€œWhy do you ask?”
    â€œCould you be my father?”
    â€œHardly.”
    â€œRemind me to look up hardly.”
    â€œOkay.”
    â€œHow do you know you’re not my father?”
    â€œIf I were, I wouldn’t be here.”
    â€œThen why is it I seem to have known you before I knew you. We are different but also the same.”
    â€œI know. I don’t know.”
    â€œThen why does it seem I am not only I but also you?”
    â€œI don’t know.”
    â€œCould I have known you in another life? Kelso believes in that.”
    â€œI don’t think so.”
    â€œThen why is it that I live this life as if it were a dream and as if any minute I might wake up and find myself in my real life?”
    â€œI don’t know.”
    â€œDoesn’t that mean that I had a real life once and that I might have again?”
    â€œI don’t know. Could I tell you what I want to tell you?”
    â€œAll right.” He thought: She says all right the same odd non-signifying way as Jane Ace in Easy Aces.
    â€œBecause your mother and I are old friends, among other reasons, she has asked me if I will be your legal guardian—God, I hate this beard, I meant to ask you to buy me a razor.”
    â€œI bought one.”
    â€œYou did? Why?”
    â€œIt pleases me to please you. It is also joyful.”
    â€œI see. Your mother does not know that you are here and she doesn’t know that I know you.”
    â€œLegal guardian. What is there to guard?”
    â€œYour real and personal property.”
    â€œMy property. I own fifty-eight dollars and fifty-three cents.”
    â€œYour real estate. This property and the island you inherited. They are quite valuable. Your parents believe it is in your interest to be declared legally incompetent and for me to be appointed your guardian since the court will not appoint them.”
    â€œWhat do you believe?”
    â€œIn my opinion you are not incompetent in the legal sense or the medical sense. I think you are quite capable of taking care of your own affairs.”
    â€œAren’t you a lawyer?”
    â€œYes.”
    â€œWhat is your preference in this matter?”
    â€œI’d as soon not be your guardian, though I’d be glad to help you any way I can. However, if your parents can get your doctor to go along they can probably succeed in having the court declare you legally incompetent. In that case, you might be better off having me as your guardian than, say, your aunt.”
    â€œOh my stars yes,” she said, using Aunt Grace’s expression. “Tell me this please.”
    â€œAll right.”
    â€œAre my parents out to screw me?”
    â€œWhat an expression.”
    â€œThat’s Kelso’s.” I can talk like anybody but me, she thought. “Her parents never came to see her. Mine came twice—until Miss Sally died. Kelso said my parents are out to screw me.”
    â€œWell, I wouldn’t put it that way.”
    â€œHow would you put it?”
    â€œThat your parents are not out to screw you. Perhaps they are trying to help you. They have a right to be concerned. And they can be a big help to you. Anyhow, you think about it and tell me later.”
    â€œAll right.”
    â€œThere is something else I want to tell you. About me.”
    â€œAll right.”
    â€œIt’s what I learned in the cave and what I am going to do.”
    But he fell silent and turned away to watch the raindrops.
    â€œWhat did you learn?”
    He turned back. Their foreheads touched. Their bodies made a diamond. “As you can see, I don’t know much. You are always asking questions to which I have no answers. By the way, did you always ask so many questions?”
    When he began to talk she found that she could not hear his words for listening to the way he said them. She cast about for his drift. Was he saying the words for the words themselves, for what they meant, or for what they could do to her? There was something about the way he talked that reminded her of her own rehearsed sentences. Was she a jury he was addressing? Though he hardly touched her, his words seemed to flow across all parts of her body. Were they meant to? A pleasure she had never known before bloomed deep in her body. Was this a way of making love?
    He was using words like “my shameful

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