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Suppose That Throughout Your Childhood You Were Good With Numbers. Other Kids Used To Copy Your Homework. You Figured Store Discounts Faster Than Your Parents. People Came To You For Help With Such Things. So You Took Accounting And Eventually Became A Tax Auditor For The Irs. What An Embarrassing Job, Right? You Feel You Should Be Writing Poetry Or Doing Aviation Mechanics Or Whatever. But Then You Realize That Tax Collecting Can Be A Calling Too.

In The Past, Friendship Was A Huge Thing. But It's Hard For Us To Think Of Friendship As A Calling, Because It's Not A Vocation.

I Have Found That The Person With A Sense Of Story Built In From Childhood Is In Better Shape Than One Who Has Not Had Stories . . One Knows What Stories Can Do, How They Can Make Up Worlds And Transpose Existence Into These Worlds. . . .one Learns That Worlds Are Made By Words And Not Only By Hammers And Wires.

We Vote For Perot. We Think He's A Great, Marvelous, Honest Man. We Send Money To His Campaign, Even Though He Is One Of The Richest Capitalists In Our Culture. Imagine, Sending Money To Perot! It's Unbelievable, Yet It's Part Of That Worship Of Individuality.

Whether We Like It Or Not, Men Have More Of The Offices, More Of The Higher Jobs, More Of The Seats In Congress. Men Need To Re-examine What Their Power Is. We Need To Understand How To Use It.