Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Thereat Directly II of XIII
“Reb, you said Virginia was directly before us.”
“Yes.”
“So by ‘directly’ did you mean like just over that tree-line directly?”
“By the light I meant.”
“That light?”
“Sure, that light.”
“That’s close.”
“If we catch the right light, we can be there in moments Gus.”
“You mean light traveling and not ‘by’ that light.”
“Right.”
“I thought you meant we were directly close to Virginia, like that time in Maryland.”
“By light I meant.”
“I get the feeling Virginia is camp talk.”
“It’s called ‘in the news’ now.”
“Sounds fancy.”
“Directly.”
Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Thereat Bending “What’s happening in Virginia Reb?”
“Hard to say.”
“Stuff though.”
“I only like going back there so much Gus.”
“I hear ya.”
“The Confederacy still upsets people.”
“You?”
“Johnny Rebs that died in combat didn’t get to come back, come back to being ‘Merican.”
“Right.”
“We died as rebels.”
“Okay.”
“Johnny Rebs that surrendered, we came back to the Union, so we came back as ‘Mericans.”
“True.”
“Surrender can strengthen.”
“Bending can strengthen.”
“Like that.”
Johnny Reb and Gus Kotka Thereat Light “Robert E. knew the strength of bending.”
“He did Yank.”
“His surrender was an ‘out of the darkness and into the light’ moment.”
“It was.”
“What did Lee do after the war?”
“Led a college.”
“Like his West Point days.”
“Like those.”
“That’s a way back Johnny.”
“True.”
“So Virginia today?”
“Yes?”
“The camp talk is?”
“The news?”
“That.”
“Well …”
*Next Up: Sunday 1 October and Thereat part III, Gus Kotka and Johnny Reb On Our Way Representational Solutions.
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