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earlier today I gave a homeless woman a dollar. I had never seen her before. she had tears in her eyes.
a man sidled up and said something to the effect of I gave her a dollar maybe she would use it to buy drink and that she might die because of it. which he said he thought of as a good thing.
"I wish everyone had your compassion," I said.
he told me that a preacher had said that to him. he had not picked up on my irony.
"he sounds like a great man."
the man said that he (the preacher) would never let anyone call him great because "only Jesus was great" or words to that effect. once again he did not pick up on the irony of my last statement which I had only said to please myself, anyway, like my other uses of irony.
"I don't think there'd be a lot of danger of me calling him great."
"right, because he wouldn't let you."
a third time the irony went right by him. a few minutes later I thought I had seen him again and then realized I could not remember his face even minutes later. other than his age and his hair (shaved off almost to the skin) and that he had on a jacket and hoody, I could not think what he looked like.
a man sidled up and said something to the effect of I gave her a dollar maybe she would use it to buy drink and that she might die because of it. which he said he thought of as a good thing.
"I wish everyone had your compassion," I said.
he told me that a preacher had said that to him. he had not picked up on my irony.
"he sounds like a great man."
the man said that he (the preacher) would never let anyone call him great because "only Jesus was great" or words to that effect. once again he did not pick up on the irony of my last statement which I had only said to please myself, anyway, like my other uses of irony.
"I don't think there'd be a lot of danger of me calling him great."
"right, because he wouldn't let you."
a third time the irony went right by him. a few minutes later I thought I had seen him again and then realized I could not remember his face even minutes later. other than his age and his hair (shaved off almost to the skin) and that he had on a jacket and hoody, I could not think what he looked like.