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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Semantic War - -Author: Bill Clothier - -Release Date: February 8, 2016 [EBook #51153] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SEMANTIC WAR *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - -</pre> - - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/cover.jpg" width="401" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="titlepage"> -<h1>THE SEMANTIC WAR</h1> - -<p>By BILL CLOTHIER</p> - -<p>Illustrated by WES</p> - -<p>[Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from<br /> -Galaxy Science Fiction November 1955.<br /> -Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that<br /> -the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.]</p> - -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p class="ph3"><i>Perhaps there have been causes for slaughter<br /> -just as silly as this was—but try to find one!</i></p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>The rain pours down chill out of a sullen sky. My pace quickens as I -try to regain the relative warmth and shelter of the cavern before I -become thoroughly drenched. I cannot afford to catch a cold. All alone -as I am and with no medicine, I would stand too great a chance of a -quick death. These lowering Oregon skies still hold traces of nameless -disease in their writhing cloud tendrils. I am not just afraid of -a cold. That would only be the key for some other malady to use and -strike me down forever.</p> - -<p>I see the cave up ahead and feel a sense of contentment as I draw near -and then duck inside its stony mouth. The rain hisses without, but -inside it is dry. There is a heavy cow-hide hanging on a peg in the -wall and I take it down and wrap it around me. Soon I will be warm. -Once more I may stave off my ultimate end.</p> - -<p>Sometimes I wonder why I wish to put it off. Certainly, according to my -old standards, there is no point in living. But somehow I feel that the -mere fact of living is justification in itself. Even for such a life as -mine.</p> - -<p>I didn't always feel this way. But then circumstances change and people -change with them. I changed my circumstances more than myself, but I -had no alternative. So now I exist.</p> - -<p>I suppose I should be content. After all, I am alive and, in my own -simple way, I enjoy life. I can remember people who asked nothing more -than to be allowed to live—to exist. Ironically enough, I always -considered them sub-normal. I felt that a man should strive to do -something that would not only perpetuate the happiness of his own -life but that of his fellow-men. Something that would make life more -beautiful, and easier, and more kind.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>It was with this feeling that I applied myself as a student of -philosophy at Stanford University. And the strengthening of this same -belief led me to take up teaching and embrace it as the only way of -obtaining genuine happiness. My personal philosophy was simple. I -would learn about life in all its real and symbolic meanings and then -teach it to my pupils, each of whom, I felt sure, were thirsting for -the knowledge that I was extracting from my cultural environment. I -would show them the meaning behind things. That, I felt, was the key to -successful living.</p> - -<p>Now it seems strangely pathetic that I should have essayed such an -impossible task. But even a professor of philosophy can be mistaken and -become confused.</p> - -<p>I remember when I first became aware of the movement. For years, we had -been drilling certain precepts into the soft, impressionable heads of -those students who came under our influence. Liberalism, some called -it, the right to take the values accumulated by society over a period -of hundreds of years and bend them to fit whatever idea or act was -contemplated. By such methods, it was possible to fit the mores to the -deed, not the deed to the mores. Oh, it was a wonderful theory, one -that promised to project all human activities entirely beyond good and -evil.</p> - -<p>However, I digress. It was a spring morning at Berkeley, California, -when I had my first inkling of the movement. I was sitting in my office -gazing out the window and considering life in my usual contemplative -fashion. I might say I was being rather smug. I was thinking how -fortunate I was to have been graduated from Stanford with such high -honors, and how my good luck had stayed with me until I received my -doctor's degree in a famous Eastern university and came out to take an -associate professorship at the Berkeley campus.</p> - -<p>I was watching the hurrying figures below on the crosswalks and idly -noting the brilliant green of the shrubbery and the trees and the lawn. -I was mixing up Keats with a bit of philosophy and thoroughly enjoying -myself. Knowledge is truth, truth beauty, I mused, that is all we know -on Earth, and all we need to know.</p> - -<p>There was a knock on my door and I said come in, reluctantly abandoning -my train of thought which had just picked up Shakespeare, whom I was -going to consider as two-thirds philosopher and one-third poet. I -have never felt that the field of literature had the sole claim to -Shakespeare's greatness.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>Professor Lillick came in, visibly perturbed. Lillick was a somewhat -erratic individual (for a professor, at least) and he was often -perturbed. Once he became excited about the possibilities of the campus -shrubbery being stunted and discolored by the actions of certain dogs -living on campus. He was not a philosophy professor, of course, but a -member of the political science group.</p> - -<p>"Carlson," he asked nervously, "have you heard about it yet?"</p> - -<p>"I have no idea," I returned good-naturedly. "Heard about what?"</p> - -<p>He looked behind him as if he thought he might be followed. Then -he whirled around, his sharp-featured face alight with feeling. -"Carlson—the Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" And he stared at me -intently, his gimlet eyes almost blazing.</p> - -<p>I stared back at him blankly.</p> - -<p>"You haven't heard!" he exclaimed. "I thought surely you would know -about it. You're always talking about freedom to apply thought for the -good of humanity. Well, we're finally going to do something about it. -You'll see. Keep your ears open, Carlson." Then he turned and started -out of the room. He paused at the threshold and fixed me again with -his ferretlike eyes. "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" he said, and -vanished through the door.</p> - -<p>And that was my first unheeded omen of what was to come. I paid little -attention to it. Lillick wasn't the sort of man who inspired attention. -As a matter of fact, I considered reporting him to the head of his -department as being on the verge of a nervous breakdown. But I didn't. -In those days, nervous breakdowns were a common occurrence around -college campuses. The educational profession was a very hazardous -occupation. One Southern university, for example, reported five faculty -suicides during spring quarter.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>In the days that followed, however, I began to realize that there was -some sort of movement being fostered by the student body. It couldn't -be defined, but it could be felt and seen. The students began to form -groups and hold meetings—often without official sanction. What they -were about could not be discovered, but some of the results soon became -evident.</p> - -<p>For one thing, certain students began to walk on one side of the -street and the other students walked on the other side. The ones who -used the north side of the street wore green sweaters with white -trousers or skirts, and the south-side students wore white sweaters -with green trousers or skirts. It even got to the point where those in -green sweaters went only to classes in the morning and those in white -attended the afternoon sessions.</p> - -<p>Then the little white cards began to appear. They were sent through -the mail. They were slipped under doorways and in desk drawers. They -turned up beside your plate at dinner and under your pillow at night. -They were pasted on your front door in the morning and they appeared in -the fly-leaves of your books. They were even hung on trees like fruit, -and surely no fruit ever spored so queer a seedling.</p> - -<p>They said either one thing or the other: THE WISTICK DUFELS THE -MORADDY, or THE MORADDY DUFELS THE WISTICK. Which card belonged to what -group was not immediately clear. It was not until the riots broke out -that the thing began to be seen in its proper perspective. And then it -was too late.</p> - -<p>When the first riot started, it was assumed that the university -officials and the police could quell it in a very short time. But -strangely enough, as additional police were called in, the battle raged -even more fiercely. I could see part of the affair from my window and -therefore was able to understand why the increasing police force only -added to the turmoil. They were fighting one another! And through the -din could be heard the wild shouts of "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" -or "The Moraddy dufels the Wistick!"</p> - -<p>The final blow came when I saw the Registrar and the Dean of Men -struggling fiercely in one of the hedge-rows, and heard the Dean of -Men yell in wild exultation as he brought a briefcase down on the -Registrar's head, "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!"</p> - -<p>Then someone broke in through the door of my office. I turned in alarm -and saw a huge three-letter man standing only a few feet from me. He -had been in one of my classes. I remembered something about his being -the hardest driving fullback on the Pacific coast. He was certainly the -dumbest philosophy student I ever flunked. His hair was mussed and he -was wild-eyed. He had blood on his face and chest, and his clothes were -torn and grass-stained.</p> - -<p>"The Wistick dufels the Moraddy," he said.</p> - -<p>"Get out of my office," I told him coldly, "and stay out."</p> - -<p>"So you're on the other side," he snarled. "I hoped you would be."</p> - -<p>He started toward me and I seized a bookend on my desk and tried to -strike him with it. But he brushed it aside and came on in. His first -blow nearly broke my arm and as I dropped my guard due to the numbing -pain, he struck me solidly on the side of the jaw.</p> - -<p>When I recovered consciousness, I was lying by the side of my desk -where I had fallen. My head ached and my neck was stiff. I got -painfully to my feet and then noticed the big square of cardboard -pinned to the door of my office. It was lettered in red pencil and in -past tense said, "The Wistick dufelled the Moraddy."</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>The uprisings arose spontaneously in all parts of the country. They -were not confined to colleges. They were not confined to any particular -group. They encompassed nearly the entire population and the fervor -aroused by their battle-cry, whichever one it might be, was beyond all -comprehension.</p> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<div class="figcenter"> - <img src="images/illus.jpg" width="360" height="500" alt=""/> -</div> - -<hr class="chap" /> - -<p>I could not understand either slogan's meaning—and there were others -like myself. On several occasions, I attempted to find out, but I was -beaten twice and threatened with a pistol the third time, so I gave -up all such efforts. I was never much given to any sort of physical -violence.</p> - -<p>One night, I went home thoroughly disheartened by the state of affairs. -The university was hardly functioning. Nearly the entire faculty, -including the college president, had been drawn into one camp or the -other. Their actions were utterly abhorrent to me. If the professor -was a green-top, or Wistickian, he lectured only to green-tops. If he -belonged to the Moraddians, or white-top faction, they were the only -ones who could enter his classroom.</p> - -<p>The two groups were so evenly divided that open violence was frowned -upon as a means of attaining whatever end they had in view. They were -biding their time and gathering strength for fresh onslaughts on each -other.</p> - -<p>As I say, I went home feeling very discouraged. My wife was in the -kitchen preparing dinner, and I went in and sat down at the table while -she worked. The daily paper was lying on the table, its headlines -loaded with stories of bloodshed and strife throughout the nation. I -glanced through them. Lately, there seemed to be a sort of pattern -forming.</p> - -<p>East of the Mississippi, the general slogan was emerging as the Moraddy -dufelling the Wistick. West of the Mississippi, the Wistick was -receiving the greater support. And it seemed that the younger people -and the women preferred the Moraddy, while elderly people and most men -were on the side of the Wistick.</p> - -<p>I commented on this.</p> - -<p>My wife answered briefly, "Of course. Anyone should know that the -Moraddy will win out." She went on with the preparations for dinner, -not looking at me.</p> - -<p>I sat stunned for a moment. Great God in Heaven, not my wife!</p> - -<p>"Am I to understand that you are taking any part of this seriously?" I -asked with some heat. "The whole thing is a horrible, pointless prank!"</p> - -<p>She turned and faced me squarely. "Not to me. I say the Moraddy -will win out. I want it to—and I think you'd be wise to get on the -bandwagon while there's still time."</p> - -<p>I realized she was serious. Dead serious. I tried a cautious query:</p> - -<p>"Just what does the dufellation of the Wistick by the Moraddy mean?"</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>And it made her angry. It actually made her angry! She switched off the -front burner and walked past me into the living room. I didn't think -she was going to answer, but she did—sort of.</p> - -<p>"There is no excuse for an egghead in your position not knowing what it -means." Her voice was strained and tense. "If you had any perception -whatever, you would understand what the Moraddy has to give the -American people. It's our only hope. And you've got to take sides. -You're either for the Moraddy or the Wistick—you can't take the middle -way."</p> - -<p>I felt completely isolated. "Wait! I don't know what it means—"</p> - -<p>"Forget it," she broke in. "I should have known. You were born, you -have lived, and you will die an egghead in an ivory tower. Just -remember—the Moraddy dufels the Wistick!" And she swept on upstairs to -pack. And out of my life.</p> - -<p>And that's the way it was. Whatever malignant poison had seeped into -the collective brain of the nation, it was certainly a devastating -leveler of all sorts of institutions and values. Wives left husbands -and husbands left wives. Joint bank accounts vanished. Families -disintegrated. Wall street crumpled.</p> - -<p>Developments were swift and ominous. The Army split up into various -groups. Most of the enlisted men favored the Moraddy, but the officers -and older non-coms pledged the Wistickian faith. Their power was -sufficient to hold many in line, but a considerable number in the lower -ranks deserted and joined forces with the Moraddians, who held the -eastern half of the country.</p> - -<p>The Wisticks ruled the western half with an iron hand, and all signs -pointed toward civil war. Labor and military authorities conscripted -the entire population regardless of age, sex or religious convictions.</p> - -<p>For my own part, I slipped away from the campus and fled north -into the Oregon mountains. It was not that I was afraid to fight, -but I rebelled at the absolute stupidity of the whole thing. The -idea—fighting because of a few words!</p> - -<p>But they did.</p> - -<p>The destruction was frightful. However, it was not as bad as many had -thought it would be. The forces of the Wistick leveled the city of New -York, true, but it took three H-bombs to do the job, instead of one, -as the Air Force had claimed. In retaliation, San Francisco and Los -Angeles were destroyed in a single night by cleverly placed atom bombs -smuggled in by a number of fifth-columnist wives who gained access to -the cities under the pretext of returning to their husbands. This was -a great victory for the Moraddians, even though the women had to blow -themselves up to accomplish their mission.</p> - -<p>The Moraddian forces were slowly beaten back toward the Atlantic -shores. They were very cunning fighters and they had youthful courage -to implement that cunning. But their overall policy lacked the -stability and long-range thinking necessary to the prosecution of total -war. One day they might overrun many populous areas and the next day, -due to the constant bickering and quarreling among their own armies, -they would lose all they had won, and more, too.</p> - -<p>Finally, in desperation, they loosed their most horrible weapon, germ -warfare. But they forgot to protect themselves against their own -malignity. The Semantic War ground to a shuddering halt. The carrion -smell of death lay round the world.</p> - -<p>The dufellation of the Wistick and the Moraddy.</p> - -<hr class="tb" /> - -<p>So here I am, scuttling around in the forests like a lonely pack-rat. -It is not the sort of life I would choose if there were any other -choice. Yet life has become very simple.</p> - -<p>I enjoy the simple things and I enjoy them with gusto. When I find -food that suits my stomach, I am happy. When I quench my thirst, I am -happy. When I see a beautiful sunset from one of my mountain crags, I -am happy. It takes little when you have little, and there have been few -men who have had less.</p> - -<p>Only one thing troubles me. I suppose it doesn't matter, but I go on -wondering.</p> - -<p>I wonder which side was right. 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You may copy it, give it away or -re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included -with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org/license - - -Title: The Semantic War - -Author: Bill Clothier - -Release Date: February 8, 2016 [EBook #51153] - -Language: English - -Character set encoding: ASCII - -*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE SEMANTIC WAR *** - - - - -Produced by Greg Weeks, Mary Meehan and the Online -Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net - - - - - - - - - - THE SEMANTIC WAR - - By BILL CLOTHIER - - Illustrated by WES - - [Transcriber's Note: This etext was produced from - Galaxy Science Fiction November 1955. - Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that - the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.] - - - - - Perhaps there have been causes for slaughter - just as silly as this was--but try to find one! - - -The rain pours down chill out of a sullen sky. My pace quickens as I -try to regain the relative warmth and shelter of the cavern before I -become thoroughly drenched. I cannot afford to catch a cold. All alone -as I am and with no medicine, I would stand too great a chance of a -quick death. These lowering Oregon skies still hold traces of nameless -disease in their writhing cloud tendrils. I am not just afraid of -a cold. That would only be the key for some other malady to use and -strike me down forever. - -I see the cave up ahead and feel a sense of contentment as I draw near -and then duck inside its stony mouth. The rain hisses without, but -inside it is dry. There is a heavy cow-hide hanging on a peg in the -wall and I take it down and wrap it around me. Soon I will be warm. -Once more I may stave off my ultimate end. - -Sometimes I wonder why I wish to put it off. Certainly, according to my -old standards, there is no point in living. But somehow I feel that the -mere fact of living is justification in itself. Even for such a life as -mine. - -I didn't always feel this way. But then circumstances change and people -change with them. I changed my circumstances more than myself, but I -had no alternative. So now I exist. - -I suppose I should be content. After all, I am alive and, in my own -simple way, I enjoy life. I can remember people who asked nothing more -than to be allowed to live--to exist. Ironically enough, I always -considered them sub-normal. I felt that a man should strive to do -something that would not only perpetuate the happiness of his own -life but that of his fellow-men. Something that would make life more -beautiful, and easier, and more kind. - - * * * * * - -It was with this feeling that I applied myself as a student of -philosophy at Stanford University. And the strengthening of this same -belief led me to take up teaching and embrace it as the only way of -obtaining genuine happiness. My personal philosophy was simple. I -would learn about life in all its real and symbolic meanings and then -teach it to my pupils, each of whom, I felt sure, were thirsting for -the knowledge that I was extracting from my cultural environment. I -would show them the meaning behind things. That, I felt, was the key to -successful living. - -Now it seems strangely pathetic that I should have essayed such an -impossible task. But even a professor of philosophy can be mistaken and -become confused. - -I remember when I first became aware of the movement. For years, we had -been drilling certain precepts into the soft, impressionable heads of -those students who came under our influence. Liberalism, some called -it, the right to take the values accumulated by society over a period -of hundreds of years and bend them to fit whatever idea or act was -contemplated. By such methods, it was possible to fit the mores to the -deed, not the deed to the mores. Oh, it was a wonderful theory, one -that promised to project all human activities entirely beyond good and -evil. - -However, I digress. It was a spring morning at Berkeley, California, -when I had my first inkling of the movement. I was sitting in my office -gazing out the window and considering life in my usual contemplative -fashion. I might say I was being rather smug. I was thinking how -fortunate I was to have been graduated from Stanford with such high -honors, and how my good luck had stayed with me until I received my -doctor's degree in a famous Eastern university and came out to take an -associate professorship at the Berkeley campus. - -I was watching the hurrying figures below on the crosswalks and idly -noting the brilliant green of the shrubbery and the trees and the lawn. -I was mixing up Keats with a bit of philosophy and thoroughly enjoying -myself. Knowledge is truth, truth beauty, I mused, that is all we know -on Earth, and all we need to know. - -There was a knock on my door and I said come in, reluctantly abandoning -my train of thought which had just picked up Shakespeare, whom I was -going to consider as two-thirds philosopher and one-third poet. I -have never felt that the field of literature had the sole claim to -Shakespeare's greatness. - - * * * * * - -Professor Lillick came in, visibly perturbed. Lillick was a somewhat -erratic individual (for a professor, at least) and he was often -perturbed. Once he became excited about the possibilities of the campus -shrubbery being stunted and discolored by the actions of certain dogs -living on campus. He was not a philosophy professor, of course, but a -member of the political science group. - -"Carlson," he asked nervously, "have you heard about it yet?" - -"I have no idea," I returned good-naturedly. "Heard about what?" - -He looked behind him as if he thought he might be followed. Then -he whirled around, his sharp-featured face alight with feeling. -"Carlson--the Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" And he stared at me -intently, his gimlet eyes almost blazing. - -I stared back at him blankly. - -"You haven't heard!" he exclaimed. "I thought surely you would know -about it. You're always talking about freedom to apply thought for the -good of humanity. Well, we're finally going to do something about it. -You'll see. Keep your ears open, Carlson." Then he turned and started -out of the room. He paused at the threshold and fixed me again with -his ferretlike eyes. "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" he said, and -vanished through the door. - -And that was my first unheeded omen of what was to come. I paid little -attention to it. Lillick wasn't the sort of man who inspired attention. -As a matter of fact, I considered reporting him to the head of his -department as being on the verge of a nervous breakdown. But I didn't. -In those days, nervous breakdowns were a common occurrence around -college campuses. The educational profession was a very hazardous -occupation. One Southern university, for example, reported five faculty -suicides during spring quarter. - - * * * * * - -In the days that followed, however, I began to realize that there was -some sort of movement being fostered by the student body. It couldn't -be defined, but it could be felt and seen. The students began to form -groups and hold meetings--often without official sanction. What they -were about could not be discovered, but some of the results soon became -evident. - -For one thing, certain students began to walk on one side of the -street and the other students walked on the other side. The ones who -used the north side of the street wore green sweaters with white -trousers or skirts, and the south-side students wore white sweaters -with green trousers or skirts. It even got to the point where those in -green sweaters went only to classes in the morning and those in white -attended the afternoon sessions. - -Then the little white cards began to appear. They were sent through -the mail. They were slipped under doorways and in desk drawers. They -turned up beside your plate at dinner and under your pillow at night. -They were pasted on your front door in the morning and they appeared in -the fly-leaves of your books. They were even hung on trees like fruit, -and surely no fruit ever spored so queer a seedling. - -They said either one thing or the other: THE WISTICK DUFELS THE -MORADDY, or THE MORADDY DUFELS THE WISTICK. Which card belonged to what -group was not immediately clear. It was not until the riots broke out -that the thing began to be seen in its proper perspective. And then it -was too late. - -When the first riot started, it was assumed that the university -officials and the police could quell it in a very short time. But -strangely enough, as additional police were called in, the battle raged -even more fiercely. I could see part of the affair from my window and -therefore was able to understand why the increasing police force only -added to the turmoil. They were fighting one another! And through the -din could be heard the wild shouts of "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" -or "The Moraddy dufels the Wistick!" - -The final blow came when I saw the Registrar and the Dean of Men -struggling fiercely in one of the hedge-rows, and heard the Dean of -Men yell in wild exultation as he brought a briefcase down on the -Registrar's head, "The Wistick dufels the Moraddy!" - -Then someone broke in through the door of my office. I turned in alarm -and saw a huge three-letter man standing only a few feet from me. He -had been in one of my classes. I remembered something about his being -the hardest driving fullback on the Pacific coast. He was certainly the -dumbest philosophy student I ever flunked. His hair was mussed and he -was wild-eyed. He had blood on his face and chest, and his clothes were -torn and grass-stained. - -"The Wistick dufels the Moraddy," he said. - -"Get out of my office," I told him coldly, "and stay out." - -"So you're on the other side," he snarled. "I hoped you would be." - -He started toward me and I seized a bookend on my desk and tried to -strike him with it. But he brushed it aside and came on in. His first -blow nearly broke my arm and as I dropped my guard due to the numbing -pain, he struck me solidly on the side of the jaw. - -When I recovered consciousness, I was lying by the side of my desk -where I had fallen. My head ached and my neck was stiff. I got -painfully to my feet and then noticed the big square of cardboard -pinned to the door of my office. It was lettered in red pencil and in -past tense said, "The Wistick dufelled the Moraddy." - - * * * * * - -The uprisings arose spontaneously in all parts of the country. They -were not confined to colleges. They were not confined to any particular -group. They encompassed nearly the entire population and the fervor -aroused by their battle-cry, whichever one it might be, was beyond all -comprehension. - -I could not understand either slogan's meaning--and there were others -like myself. On several occasions, I attempted to find out, but I was -beaten twice and threatened with a pistol the third time, so I gave -up all such efforts. I was never much given to any sort of physical -violence. - -One night, I went home thoroughly disheartened by the state of affairs. -The university was hardly functioning. Nearly the entire faculty, -including the college president, had been drawn into one camp or the -other. Their actions were utterly abhorrent to me. If the professor -was a green-top, or Wistickian, he lectured only to green-tops. If he -belonged to the Moraddians, or white-top faction, they were the only -ones who could enter his classroom. - -The two groups were so evenly divided that open violence was frowned -upon as a means of attaining whatever end they had in view. They were -biding their time and gathering strength for fresh onslaughts on each -other. - -As I say, I went home feeling very discouraged. My wife was in the -kitchen preparing dinner, and I went in and sat down at the table while -she worked. The daily paper was lying on the table, its headlines -loaded with stories of bloodshed and strife throughout the nation. I -glanced through them. Lately, there seemed to be a sort of pattern -forming. - -East of the Mississippi, the general slogan was emerging as the Moraddy -dufelling the Wistick. West of the Mississippi, the Wistick was -receiving the greater support. And it seemed that the younger people -and the women preferred the Moraddy, while elderly people and most men -were on the side of the Wistick. - -I commented on this. - -My wife answered briefly, "Of course. Anyone should know that the -Moraddy will win out." She went on with the preparations for dinner, -not looking at me. - -I sat stunned for a moment. Great God in Heaven, not my wife! - -"Am I to understand that you are taking any part of this seriously?" I -asked with some heat. "The whole thing is a horrible, pointless prank!" - -She turned and faced me squarely. "Not to me. I say the Moraddy -will win out. I want it to--and I think you'd be wise to get on the -bandwagon while there's still time." - -I realized she was serious. Dead serious. I tried a cautious query: - -"Just what does the dufellation of the Wistick by the Moraddy mean?" - - * * * * * - -And it made her angry. It actually made her angry! She switched off the -front burner and walked past me into the living room. I didn't think -she was going to answer, but she did--sort of. - -"There is no excuse for an egghead in your position not knowing what it -means." Her voice was strained and tense. "If you had any perception -whatever, you would understand what the Moraddy has to give the -American people. It's our only hope. And you've got to take sides. -You're either for the Moraddy or the Wistick--you can't take the middle -way." - -I felt completely isolated. "Wait! I don't know what it means--" - -"Forget it," she broke in. "I should have known. You were born, you -have lived, and you will die an egghead in an ivory tower. Just -remember--the Moraddy dufels the Wistick!" And she swept on upstairs to -pack. And out of my life. - -And that's the way it was. Whatever malignant poison had seeped into -the collective brain of the nation, it was certainly a devastating -leveler of all sorts of institutions and values. Wives left husbands -and husbands left wives. Joint bank accounts vanished. Families -disintegrated. Wall street crumpled. - -Developments were swift and ominous. The Army split up into various -groups. Most of the enlisted men favored the Moraddy, but the officers -and older non-coms pledged the Wistickian faith. Their power was -sufficient to hold many in line, but a considerable number in the lower -ranks deserted and joined forces with the Moraddians, who held the -eastern half of the country. - -The Wisticks ruled the western half with an iron hand, and all signs -pointed toward civil war. Labor and military authorities conscripted -the entire population regardless of age, sex or religious convictions. - -For my own part, I slipped away from the campus and fled north -into the Oregon mountains. It was not that I was afraid to fight, -but I rebelled at the absolute stupidity of the whole thing. The -idea--fighting because of a few words! - -But they did. - -The destruction was frightful. However, it was not as bad as many had -thought it would be. The forces of the Wistick leveled the city of New -York, true, but it took three H-bombs to do the job, instead of one, -as the Air Force had claimed. In retaliation, San Francisco and Los -Angeles were destroyed in a single night by cleverly placed atom bombs -smuggled in by a number of fifth-columnist wives who gained access to -the cities under the pretext of returning to their husbands. This was -a great victory for the Moraddians, even though the women had to blow -themselves up to accomplish their mission. - -The Moraddian forces were slowly beaten back toward the Atlantic -shores. They were very cunning fighters and they had youthful courage -to implement that cunning. But their overall policy lacked the -stability and long-range thinking necessary to the prosecution of total -war. One day they might overrun many populous areas and the next day, -due to the constant bickering and quarreling among their own armies, -they would lose all they had won, and more, too. - -Finally, in desperation, they loosed their most horrible weapon, germ -warfare. But they forgot to protect themselves against their own -malignity. The Semantic War ground to a shuddering halt. The carrion -smell of death lay round the world. - -The dufellation of the Wistick and the Moraddy. - - * * * * * - -So here I am, scuttling around in the forests like a lonely pack-rat. -It is not the sort of life I would choose if there were any other -choice. Yet life has become very simple. - -I enjoy the simple things and I enjoy them with gusto. When I find -food that suits my stomach, I am happy. When I quench my thirst, I am -happy. When I see a beautiful sunset from one of my mountain crags, I -am happy. It takes little when you have little, and there have been few -men who have had less. - -Only one thing troubles me. I suppose it doesn't matter, but I go on -wondering. - -I wonder which side was right. 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