The Spirit Incarnate of the Great World of Dreams meets with the Three Wise Men of Kibwezi, and for forty-eight hours all is light and truth. A man could live up to his ideals for that long. And they did have ideals, these three, so we were equals, and they showed me true courtesy and paid for their share of the beer. And they shed a tear for the moment when the great bird would fly on.
I was becoming a carrier of the dreams of men. I gathered them
like pollen, fertilizing as I went. But I had not yet quite realized my power, nor its transforming effect on people, and I still thought they were
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