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Show -153- This was always a humbling experience. He mm knew whether he would l i k e what he had written last or whether he would be able to write anything worthwhile today. He almost didn't dare look a t the l a s t pages in the black binder. He remembered how easy i t had seemed when he was younger. He had set himself a quota of ten pages a day and had sometimes exceeded t h a t . New he was mentally exhausted when he had written three pages, and he often didn't complete that many. Finally, he picked up the binder and read over the last page? Reading slowly, he thought i t not bad? The l a s t unfinished sentence read: "Man has always made images of that which he most admires; or, to give i t a religious sense, that which represented his highest. . ." He typed in the final c word of the sentenae: "ideals." The word stood alone and lonely a t the upper l e f t hand margine of the clean sheet of paper? He picked up a ball point pen and crossed out the "ed" from the word, "represented," Inserted an "s" in i ts place? Where to go from here? He knew where he wanted to get, but how to get there? Again he stared at his white paper. His mind was considering the possibilities, screwing itself up to the proper pitch of concentration? He read again the sentence as he had revised it: "Man has always made images of that which he most admires; or, to give it a religious sense, that which represents his highest ideals." What flashed through his mind were the images in the |