Martin Eden Ch 44 p430

Paul Stought

Aug 31

how, when they had read "The Ring of Bells" in the Transcontinental, and "The Peri and the Pearl" in The Hornet, they had immediately picked him for a winner. My God! and I was hungry and in rags, he thought to himself. Why didn't you give me a dinner then? Then was the time. It was work performed. If you are feeding me now for work performed, why did you not feed me then when I needed it? Not one word in "The Ring of Bells," nor in "The Peri and the Pearl" has been changed. No; you're not feeding me now for work performed. You are feeding me because everybody else is feeding me and because it is an honor to feed me. You are feeding me now because you are herd animals; because you are part of the mob; because the one blind, automatic thought in the mob-mind just now is to feed me. And where does Martin Eden and the work Martin Eden performed come in in all this? he asked himself plaintively, then arose to respond cleverly and wittily to a clever and witty toast.	hou, when dhae had red "Dhu Ring uv Belz" in dhu Tranzkontunentul, and "Dhu Piry and dhu Purul" in Dhu Haurnut, dhae had imydyutly pikd him faur u winur. Mie God! and Ie wuz hunggry and in ragz, hy thaut too himself. Whie didn't ue giv my u dinur dhen? Dhen wuz dhu tiem. It wuz wurk purfaurmd. If ue or fyding my nou faur wurk purfaurmd, whie did ue not fyd my dhen when Ie nydud it? Not wun wurd in "Dhu Ring uv Belz," naur in "Dhu Piry and dhu Purul!" haz bin chaenjd. Noe; ue'r not fyding my nou faur wurk purfaurmd. Ue or fyding bikauz evrybody els iz fyding my and bikauz it iz an onur too fyd my. Ue or fyding my nou bikauz ue or hurd anumulz; bikauz ue or port uv dhu mob; bikauz dhu wun bliend, autumatik thaut in dhu mob-miend just nou iz too fyd my. And wher duz Mortun Ydun and dhu wurk Mortun Ydun purfaurmd kum in in aul dhis? hy askd himself plaentivly, dhen uroez too rispond klevurly and wituly too u klevur and wity toest.
So it went. Wherever he happened to be—at the Press Club, at the Redwood Club, at pink teas and literary gatherings—always were remembered "The Ring of Bells" and "The Peri and the Pearl" when they were first published. And always was Martin's maddening and unuttered demand: Why didn't you feed me then? It was work performed. "The Ring of Bells" and "The Peri and the Pearl" are not changed one iota. They were just as artistic, just as worth while, then as now. But you are not feeding me for their sake, nor for the sake of anything else I have written. You're feeding me because it is the style of feeding just now, because the whole mob is crazy with the idea of feeding Martin Eden.	Soe it went. Wherevur hy hapund too by—at dhu Pres Klub, at dhu Redwwd Klub, at pingk tyz and liturery gadhuringz—aulwaez wur rimemburd "Dhu Ring uv Belz" and " Dhu Piry and dhu Purul" when dhae wur furst publishd. And aulwaez wuz Mortun'z maduning and unuturd dimand: Whie didn't ue fyd my dhen? It wuz wurk purfaurmd. "Dhu Ring uv Belz" and "Dhu Piry and dhu Purul" or not chaenjd wun ioetu. Dhae wur just az ortistik, just az wurth whiel, dhen az nou. But ue or not fyding my faur dher saek, naur faur dhu saek uv enything els Ie hav ritun. Ue'r fyding my bikauz it iz dhu stiel uv fyding just nou, bikauz dhu hoel mob iz kraezy with dhy iedyu uv fyding Mortun Ydun.
And often, at such times, he would abruptly see slouch in among the company a young hoodlum in square-cut coat and under a stiff-rim Stetson hat. It happened to him at the Gallina Society in Oakland one afternoon. As he rose from his chair and stepped forward across the platform, he saw	And ofun, at such tiemz, hy wwd ubruptly sy slouch in umung dhu kumpuny u yung hwdlum in skwer-kut koet and undur u stif-rim Stetsun hat. It hapund too him at dhu Gulynu Susiuty in Oeklund wun afturnoon. Az hy roez frum hiz cher and stepd faurwurd ukros dhu platfaurm, hy sau
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