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Show -273- Chaeter Nineteen On New Year's morning, the Professor and his wife slept l a t e . They were awakened by a telephone c a l l from someone spejkij^ for the Teacher's Union, who said the striking faculty members would meet the next morning a t nine o'clock to march en masse onto the campus. They would assemble for instructions, the voice said, a t the synagogue near the University. Did the Professor know where that was? The Professor said he d i d n ' t . It was, the voice said, on Brotherhood Way. The Professor said he knew where that was. He said he would be there? The synagogue; the Methodist church? the Y.M.CAt Why were a l l t h e i r off-campus meeting places, places of religious worship? A nervousness that developed soon a f t e r the telephone c a l l had made the Professor i r r i t a b l e ? He had purposely made no plans for this day," because he thought he might be able to get some work done. Now he knew he wouldn't. As he drank his morning coffee (his wife had remained in bed), he thought about the religious implications of t h e i r meeting places. Sectarianism? he considered the curse of modern religion." Without i t , Christianity - t r u e Christianity; that i s , the teachings of Christ - might have survived. The figure of Christ he saw a s a refinement of his two favorite gods of aniquity: A Osiris and Dionysus. In this triad, two strands of religious history merged? the mystery of the labyrinth? and the consola- |
