1959
A man must live in the service of a great idea.
-Leon Trotsky in Intellectuals, Paul Johnson, Harper and Rowe, NY, 1993, p.177.
There is no single other creature in all history like yourself.
-ibid., p.291.
The sonnet goes back to the twelfth century.
-From notes taken in reading 27/10/96.
I became a Baha’i
the year of Ben Hur
and Charlton Heston,
Fidel Castro in Cuba,
Charles Mason Remey
in his voluntary exile
and the Frisbee.
I got the highest marks
in my school life that year
and my dad finished
his working life.
The Beatles were getting
their act together
and I said “I believe.”*
* This process of the acquisition of belief seems, looking back, as natural and simple as breathing air.
Ron Price
