Arcadio

Arcadio by William Goyen

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them and they thought something was different about the stranger and then it dawned on them it was the very Lord Jesus Jesucristo! And oh they was so full of joy because they had been blue since Jesucristo had been gone. Tis in the Biblia Blanca you will find it there. Run all night to Deliverance Church in Norfork Virginia to the Reverence Carl C. Cane and delivered dead Tomasso to Deliverance Choir where first I found him singin and aclappin his brown hands. Oh God and Jesucristo! And oh that Choir sung, sung for the dead boy Tomasso come back home and oh they clapped their hands and wailed out and they wept like Jesuses friends wept at the foot of the cross and Deliverance Choir delivered sweet Tomasso up to Virgin’s Heaven.
    Deliverance Choir wanted me to stay and Reverence C. Carl Cane—just say C.C. says the Reverence, like many people do, then they don’t have the problem of which comes first the C. or the Carl. Thank you C.C. I says. I only wish I had known this earlier. Anyways the Reverence C.C. Cane wanted me to stay at Deliverance Church in Norfork Virginia with all of the wonderful Choir and all of the wonderful Choir wanted me to, too. Can Deliverance Choir use a frenchharp I asked them? We could sure find a place for a mouth organ says Reverence C.C. Cane. I have never heard it called that, I says. My grandfather played one, says Reverence C.C. Cane. In the Blue Ridge. Twas strapped around his mouth while he played a fiddle. How would that work? I says. Wouldn’t the sawing of his arm knock the frenchharp out of’s mouth? This sometimes happened, says the Reverence.
    But I went on, waving goodbye to all the wonderful Deliverance Choir of Tomasso that was asinging I’ll see you again one day, baby, O’er the crystal strand. Baby. When we will meet again. Baby. Do not cry for me . I had delivered Tomasso back to Deliverance Choir and Deliverance Choir had delivered him into Virgin’s Heaven. As far as I could go that night I heard their heavenly singin blowing over and around me on the wind, oh twas so sad.
    And I wished again that I had never found Tomasso, never come upon him in Deliverance Choir, wished I’d never found him, he might still be live and singin with his blessed family of black brothers and sisters in Deliverance Church under the leadership of Carl C. Cane or was it C. Carl Cane cain’t now remember exactly, C. C, that’s right, C. C, aclappin his brown hands the way he did, asmilin, my jailboy, my virgen singer, my sweet brother, my mother Chupa’s own son with a Jewish salesman.
    I remember now what he said that when the person told him that he had a mother somewhere said that he run to Mr. and Mrs. Policheck the Bohunks, and asked them. But said that Mr. and Mrs. Sam Policheck would never tell him one thing about his mother and mine. Said he said why is it such a dark secret and said they said it is so dark that even we do not even know anything. Your mother was mum about herself, had sealed her own lips, they said (these are Anglo espressions we do not have any Mescan for them, to seal lips and to keep mum) so said he sealed his own lips too, Tomasso did and never again after he was seven years of age asked about his mother but vowed to one day excape and look for noticias of her in the world. So one night with the help of Hondo and Old John through the hole they dug, he run out into the night and was soon found by the Reverence…Carl…C…. Cane and was taken—I think the Carl comes first—he was twelve and joyous—into Deliverance Church. Instead of finding my mother, Tomasso said, in his Missoura accent, cain’t say the way he said it in Missourian no matter what I say sounds Mescan Texas or out of La Biblia from learning to read by it and always reading from it and having its words; instead of finding my mother, Tomasso said, I found Deliverance Church and wonderful Brother C. Carl Cane. He convinced me to give up

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