Part VI of XIII
“… Whoa.”
“It’s art.”
“Pretty sure it’s Jesus Reb.”
“A representation.”
“So Art looks like Jesus?”
“Sometimes.”
“Wears flowing robes?”
“On occasion.”
“Did Jesus really look like that?”
“All Jewish carpenters dress that way.”
“Reb.”
“Their robes have pockets in the folds for tools.”
“Sacrilege.”
“Hammer at will.”
“You just sinning now Johnny.”
“Jesus has a sense of humor.”
“He’d have to.”
“Flag.”
“Tree …”
“… Reb, this ain’t skirmishing.”
“You don’t want the point?”
“This is homer time for you.”
“Right Gus.”
“I sense there are Johnny Rebs here.”
“Yes.”
“What’s that feel like?”
“I don’t feel much.”
“Think then Johnny.”
“As a composite spirit, there are too many particulars; it’s not that I don’t feel, it’s just that there’s too much to feel.”
“All the campfires roll into one.”
“Lastingness.”
“In changing something-ness.”
“Let’s visit a Johnny, one of me, and move on.”
“Got one in mind?”
“Do.”
“How about the thirty Thousand?”
“An update, yes …”
Next Up: 21 June and part VII of the series Johnny Reb and Gus Yank Berryvillin’: A Coalition of the Constitutionally Willing.
Posted by Bryan W. Brickner