Sorcerer's Apprentice by Charles Johnson

Author:Charles Johnson
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: The Sorcerer’s Apprentice: Tales and Conjurations
ISBN: The_Scorcerers_Apprentice
Publisher: Dzanc Books
Published: 1977-04-07T05:00:00+00:00

ALĒTHIA

God willing, I’m going to tell you a love story. A skeptical old man, whose great forehead and gray forked beard most favor (when I flatter myself) those of that towering sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois, I am hardly a man to conjure a fabulation so odd in its transfiguration of things, so strange, so terrifying (thus it now seems to me) that it belongs on the pale lips of the poetic genius who wrote Essentials and that hallucinatory prose-poem called Cane. But even though I’m an old man (I know my faults: failing memory, an infernal Faustian leer), I can still tell a first-rate tale of romance.

The girl always came late to my evening seminar—Kant this semester—sashaying seductively, pulled into the room by rental-library books held close to her chest, clomping in black leather boots around the long table to sit, her brown knees pressed together, left of my lectern. When she first “appeared” to me, I believe I was stalking Kant, thumbs hooked in my vest, by way of a playful verse attributed to Bishop Berkeley:

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