C M Kornbluth - Kazam Collects

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C. M. Kornbluth

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"HAIL, JEWEL IN THE LOTUS," half whispered the stringy, brown person. His eyes were shut in holy

ecstasy, his mouth pursed as though he were tasting the sweetest fruit that ever grew.

"Hail, jewel in the lotus," mumbled back a hundred voices in a confused backwash of sound. The stringy,

brown person turned and faced his congregation. He folded his hands.

"Children of Hagar," he intoned. His voice was smooth as old ivory and had a mellow sheen about it

"Children of Hagar, you who have found delight and peace in the bosom of the Elemental, the Eternal,

the Un-know-ingness that is without bounds, make Peace with me." You could tell by his very voice that

the words were capitalized.

"Let our Word," intoned the stringy, brown person, "be spread. Let our Will be brought about Let us

destroy, let us mould, let us build. Speak low and make your spirits white as Hagar's beard." With a

reverent gesture he held before them two handfuls of an unattached beard that hung from the altar.

"Children of Hagar, unite your Wills into One." The congregation kneeled as he gestured at them,

gestured as one would at a puppy one was training to play dead.

The meeting hall—or rather, temple—of the Cult of Hagar was on the third floor of a little building on

East 59th Street, otherwise almost wholly unused. The hall had been fitted out to suit the sometimes

peculiar requirements of the unguess-able Will-Mind-Urge of Hagar Inscrutable; that meant that there

was gilded wood everywhere there could be, and strips of scarlet cloth hanging from the ceiling in circles

of five. There was, you see, a Sanctified Ineffability about the unequal lengths of the cloth strips.

The faces of the congregation were varying studies in rapture. As the stringy, brown person tinkled a bell

they rose and blinked absently at him as he waved a benediction and vanished behind a door covered

with chunks of gilded wood.

The congregation began to buzz quietly.

"Well?" demanded one of another. "What did you think of

"I dunno. Who's he, anyway?" A respectful gesture at the door covered with gilded wood.

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