continual pain I feel (mass psychosis). The source of the pain we mad people feel is you with all the evil deeds you do. When you commit evil acts, we are put into pain. (Imitating the weird voice of the Shadow) ‘Who knows what evil lurks in the hearts of men? The Shadow knows!’ For awhile, you get to walk in my shoes. And when you do so, you drop dead in your tracks – it’s my deadly blessing! (I start singing the rock song) ‘I got the power! I got the power!’ Indeed I do have the power, and it’s is a deadly poison! Out of all the millions of mad people on the planet right now, probably less than a handful possess all the powers I have. Madness is incurable, and there is a progressive deterioration. I am at the final stages of a fatal disease. My brain has melted into goo, and I’m in continuous physical pain. Jesus of course had the same affliction. Again, the gods must be crazy. And so did Moses, for that matter. He was his own special effects man, as when he bested the Egyptian wizards in his magic duels. I, like Moses, am accompanied by my magic wand. It below my belt. Norman O. Brown in ‘Closing Time’ quotes James Joyce’s ‘Finnegans Wake’, ‘He lifts up the lifewand and the dumb speak.’ At one point during the Exodus, the Hebrews he was leading decided that Moses was out to kill them. After all, they knew he was mad. When they protested to him, Moses dropped two of them dead in their tracks.. Moses said that God struck them down, but it was really only Moses doing the special effects.
I’m the Captain
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