Confucius at Mount Rushmore

 Confucius at Mount Rushmore  

Falsified “photograph” of Confucius
& unidentified park ranger at
Mount Rushmore, summer 1968.

“Such big heads,” Confucius said.

     “And almost as large in life,” the ranger answered. “Washington - he’s the one on the left - understood humility, at least, that it was important to pretend to have it. But only Lincoln, the last, with the beard, truly practiced it.”

     “He was the great man, then.”

     “Yes. But the only one that didn’t die in bed.”

     “Where did he die, then?”

     “At the theater.”

     Confucius nodded as if, yes, that was significant, and he knew what it meant.

05.02.20

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 * This is the fourth in the series, “Confucius in America, 1968,” which begins here.