You ask me how I became a madman. It happened thus: One day, long before many gods were born, I woke from a deep sleep and found all my masks were stolen, -the seven masks I have fashioned and worn in seven lives,-I ran mask less through the crowded streets shouting, "Thieves, thieves, the cursed thieves." Men and women laughed at me and some ran to their houses in fear of me. And when I reached the market place, a youth standing on a house-top cried, "He is a madman." I looked up to behold him; the sun kissed my own naked face for the first time. For the first time the sun kissed my own naked face and my soul was inflamed with love for the sun, and I wanted my masks no more. And as if in a
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CONTENTS; GOD, 9; My FRIEND, 11; THE SCARECROW, 14; THE SLEEP-WALKERS, 15; THE WISE Doo, 17; TnE Two HEltMITS, 18; iJN GIVING AND TAKING, 20; THE SEVEN SELVES, 21; WAR,24; THE Fox, 26; THE WISE KINO, 27; AMBITION, 29; THE NEW PLEASURE, 3 i~; THE OTHER LANGUAGE, 32; THE POMEGRANATE, 35; TIlE Two CAGES, 37; THE THREE ANTS, 38; THE GRAvE-DrGGER, 40; ON THE STEPS OF THE TEMPLE, 41; THE BLESSED CITY, 42; THE GOOD GOD AND THE EVIL GOD, 45; "DEFEAT," 46; NIGHT AND THE MADMAN, 49 FACES, 52; THE GREATER SEA, 53; CRUCIFIED, 57; THE ASTRONOMER, 59; THE GREAT LoNGING; 60; SAID A BLADE OF GRASS: 62; THE EYE, 63; THE Two LEARNED IVIEN, 64; WHEN My SORROW WAS BORN, 65; AND WHEN My JOY WAS BORN, 6J; liTHE PERFECT WORLD," 69
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