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by Theodore Dreiser

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Shishmash Hash Hash

(Excitedly touching his toes with his hands nine times.) The Questions, your Noble Referendunce! The Sacred Questions!

Noxus Podunkus

(Heavily and benignly.) Ah, yes! Ah, yes! The Sacred Questions! It is not intention, but memory, that seems to fail me. Quite so—the Sacred Questions! (He takes one of fifty plates offered him and examines it closely.) Ah yes! Here it is! One of the most significant and wonderful questions that has ever been planned, I think, to ease our minds and comfort us. (Reads.) Question Nine: “Is it not true that the universe is ordained for Truth, Justice, Virtue, Mercy, Tenderness, Purity?” (His voice trails off in utter exhaustion.)

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