Part 37 (2/2)

Nick: You already have.

Enoch: You mean the Movement. But it didn't last-she's a heretic. She's gone over to your sect.

Nick: I have no sect. Sects are exactly what I'm against.

Enoch: People who are against sects form a very large sect.

Me: But don't you see! I'm not open to conversion.

There's no missionary representing anything who's clever enough to catch me.

Enoch: The missionary needn't be clever.

Me: Anyone who could change my ideas would have to be clever all right!

Enoch: On the contrary. Even illiterate. Even ignorant in toto.

Me: That sort of individual wouldn't affect me.

Enoch: That sort of individual will persuade you.

Me: To what?

Enoch: To become what you were always intended to become.

Me: What's that?

Enoch: A member of a cla.s.s.

Nick: Ho hum, Karl Marx again.

Enoch: No. Anton Chekhov.

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