To have a reason to get up in the m0mh~g， ~.t is nec-
essary to possess a guiding principle. A bel.ief of
some kind. A bumper sticker~ if you will， People in
cars on busy freeways cMi to each ether Boycote
Grapes， comfort each o~er Honk i/ You Love desk， s，
joke with each other Be Kind to Animals~Kiss a
Beaver. They identify~ they summarize， they antago-~
nize with statements of faith: ~ Have a Dream， Too
--Law and Order; Jesus Saves at Chicago Fed; Rod
McKuen Ior President.
Lying on his back in bed， he gazes aroused the wa~Is
of his room， musing about what has happened to Ms
collection of statements~ They had been discreetly
mounted on cardboard， and faste~:ed up with push
pins so as not to deface the wMls~ Gone now. Preb~
ably tossed out with the rest of the junk--all those
eight-by-ten colorprints of the Cubs， White Sox， and
Bears， junior-high mementos~ Too bad. It would be
comforting to have something to look up to. tnstead，
the walls are bare. They have been freshly painted~
Pale blue. An amxious color. AnxieV is b~ue; fa~3ure，
gray. He knows those shades. He tdd Crawford they
would be back to sit on the end of his bed， paralyzing
him， shaming him， but Crawferd was ，v~ot ~pressedo
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