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"'Son, after I'm gone I want you to keep up the good fight.
I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy
in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction.
Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to
overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destuction,
let 'em swoller you til they vomit or bust wide open.'
They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men.
The younger children were rushed from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of
the lamp turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's breathing.
'Learn it to the younguns,' he whispered fiercely;
then he died."
-The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
I never told you, but our life is a war and I have been a traitor all my born days, a spy
in the enemy's country ever since I give up my gun back in the Reconstruction.
Live with your head in the lion's mouth. I want you to
overcome 'em with yeses, undermine 'em with grins, agree 'em to death and destuction,
let 'em swoller you til they vomit or bust wide open.'
They thought the old man had gone out of his mind. He had been the meekest of men.
The younger children were rushed from the room, the shades drawn and the flame of
the lamp turned so low that it sputtered on the wick like the old man's breathing.
'Learn it to the younguns,' he whispered fiercely;
then he died."
-The Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.