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Show Flying - 84 He believes firmly that the only difference between lower and upper classes is a matter of education. If we could only teach them all. "Eastern towns are more compact because they were there before the roads came," says Wilberforce. John Henry listens with patience, but without much faith in the reasons of history. They have a lot in common, my leaders. Rational men both. Perhaps that's what it takes to be a leader. The crucial quality. Man is the only irrational animal, my father used to say. Sitting on the front porch under the big maples on cool summer evenings reading Whitman. Do I contradict myself. They roll deeper into the sprawl of the city, and the buildings get a little taller and a little closer to the street, but the traffic remains light and Armstrong has no trouble staying with it, except for an occasional absent-minded wandering from one lane to another. Until the intersection of Speedway and Park Avenue, where a chrome and black leather wheelchair pushed with speed and style shoots across the street against the light. The rational man at the wheel loses a precious tenth of a second figuring out that he can't go to the left because the wheelchair is traveling too fast, and he can't go to the right because there's a delivery truck in the right lane. |
