Peoria High School - Crest Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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278 The End I am wriTing This aT 1:30 in The morning, noT ouT of any personal asceTic convicTions, buT ouT of The reaIizaTion ThaT Tomorrow lwhich is really Todayl a final shipmenT of pages musT be made, I, of course, have been so busy pushing secTion ediTors, sophomores, phoTographers and oTher such inferior creaTures ThaT my own work on The yearbook has been slighTed. Besides ThaT, I'm lazy. JusT for old senTi- menTaIiTy's sake, I'lI Tell you now ThaT This is The firsT land probably lforTunaTely for you lcan I puT parenTheses wiThin parenTheses l?lll IasTl Time I will ever plague you by having anyfhing of mine published-I have been The graTe- ful recipienT of several hearTwarming reiecTion slips which have become The obiecT of many cloddish iokes among my friends-so humor a megalomaniac and lisTen To my in- coherenf babblings. Zoundsl IThanks To R. B. Sheridanl you ask, won'T he ever shuT up? BuT, dear reader, I have aT IeasT one whole page To fill wiTh This drivel, buT I doubT ThaT even I can expound ThaT much. ONWARD and UPWARD!! -Cr- Q I suppose ThaT I should Take my own borrowed advice and begin aT The beginning, buT I have no idea where ThaT would be. Perhaps I oughT To aTTempT To arrive aT The cer- TainTy if my own exisTence Ia fairly good sTarT, buT DescarTes, you old codger, don'T you realize ThaT you're also quesfion- ing your non-exisTence, so by The same Token you may noT exisT? IZeno would love mell. I suppose l'II have To pick a spoT aT random and sTarT from There, and where I'lI find myself, Zeus Iif There is a Zeus eT ceTera, er ceTeral only knows. Alpha and Omega have never made more sense To me Than now-There is no place To begin, much less To end. The proofs are back-WhaT? I've led up To This and all I can say is ThaT The proofs have come back? All righT, Then, I'Il sTarT somewhere, buT The proofs will bear some relevancy ll hopel. I have read over The copy I had wriTTen for page 2 and geT embarrassed every Time I read iT. In facT, I'm em- barrassed of The whole 'I6 page signaTure ThaT only a few monThs ago I so proud To hand To The publisher lone of Those vaguely benevoIenT dieTiesl. Mr, NewsfoTo, Publisher, God, whoever, here are my PAGES. The greaTesT opening secTion in The yearbook his- Tory-pasT, presenT, fuTura. And The proofs came and iT is? Will The mobs run Through The halls shrieking: Who do you Think you are, MeisTer? You Trine To make us THINK? Well, mob, I have This IiTTle sTory you mighT be inTeresT- ed in lTells sTory amid cries of Hang 'im! l: This man was searching for The meaning of life and in his search heard of a guru living on a mounTain. So The man Travelled aT greaT expense To The mounTain where The guru lived and asked The guru, 'O, Guru, Tell me The meaning of life.' 'IT is To conTempIaTe The Buddha TruThs,' was The guru's un- faITering reply. 'WhaT?' asked The man. 'You mean iT isn'T?' asked The guru, his faiTh forever uprooted. Enough-I have To check myself. The Thank-you's: Mr. STevenor-for his good iudgmenT and his bailing us ouT of Trouble Miss Poshard-I plead The fifTh amendmenT, buT she and The sTaff know Mr. Fink-for advising The business sTaff and ToleraTing ediToriaI sTaff inTervenTion Mr. Highfill-for pizza and favors Dan Du Boff-for Taking over a floundering phoTography deparTmenT and bailing The CREST ouT of a mess Rodney MasT-for help when he was Through wiTh his own work Lance Rodewald-reTroacTively for IasT year There is yeT one omniscienT, omnipresenf being I would like To Thank for imparTing To me The aTTiTude ThaT helped me puT ouT This book .... Waldo

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