Johnny Got His Gun Page #4

Of course,

it's a lot cheaper

to cut a leg off

than fix it up.

With a war going on,

they haven't got much time.

Everybody is tired.

But, what kind of doctor

would cut a man down

to what I am now

and still let him live?

Do they have a bet on?

Were they showing off

or something?

Was it some kind

of experiment?

No.

Nobody would do

a thing like that

to another man.

Nobody could be

such a butcher.

My dear students,

war has various meanings

to various persons.

To the scientist,

war means that he

is actually set free

to accomplish

his most brilliant

and most imaginative

enterprises.

For example,

in previous wars,

each injury has resulted

in a very serious loss

to the taxpayers,

the loss of a most

expensively trained soldier--

or fighting unit,

as we call him now.

However, in the next war,

we shall be able to repair

and deliver that

same fighting unit

to the frontline trenches

in three weeks

or even less.

And all because

of the radical

new techniques

which this young man

has taught us.

I'm having a nightmare

that says I'm real.

Wake me up, Mother,

and tell me I'm not real.

I don't know where you are, my son,

or what troubles you.

Try to remember that God

is the only reality,

and that you are made

in his image and likeness.

And since you are

the perfect reflection

of God's reality,

you are real.

You're wrong, Mother.

It's a dream.

It's got to be.

Everything else

is true, but not this.

No, I remember

the real things, Mother.

Even before we left Colorado

and moved to Los Angeles.

I remember everything.

Ouch.

You hurt yourself,

son?

Uh-uh.

Let's see.

Oh, honestly.

Someday those feet

are gonna get so dirty,

they'll

never wash clean.

From now on, I'm gonna

take my baths at the YMCA,

the way Daddy does.

For behold, I bring

you tidings of great joy

that shall be

to all people.

For unto you is

born this day

in the city of David,

a savior,

which is Christ the Lord.

And suddenly there was

with the angel--

See those rocks

over there?

A long time ago,

they caught

a hunting party

of Ute Indians there.

Know what they did?

Rounded 'em up,

tied rocks around their feet,

and threw 'em in the lake.

About where we are now.

The, uh, fishing on this

side of the lake's been good ever since.

Science and Health

with Key to the Scriptures,

by Mary Baker Eddy.

"All is infinite mind

"and its infinite

manifestation.

"Matter is mortal error.

"Spirit is the real

and eternal.

"Matter is the unreal

and temporal.

"Spirit is God,

"and man is his image

and likeness.

"Therefore,

man is not material.

He is spiritual."

Those were the real things, Mother.

What I am now is in a dream.

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