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Jack has been brought so low that he is asking the editors of the 450 papers that print his column for help. The profundity of his act of humility can be measured only if one understands that help from editors is the last thing a columnist will accept. In fact the redeeming grace, the distinguishing mark, of a columnist is that he has passed over into that happy state in which he is not subject to editorial review or judgment, either approving or disapproving.
Moreover, having been an editor. Jack Kilpatrick, knows how serious it is to ask an editor to stand up from his editor’s chiar, to come out from behind his editor's desk, to put aside the protection of editorial anonymity, and to speak or *rite without the covering defense that the views do not" necessarily reflect the opinion of the editors."
What could have brought on this moment of truth?
It was a skunk, a female skunk, according to Jack’s observation. This female skunk, called Rosebud, has established herself under the Kilpatrick guest cottage and Jack does not know how to get rid of her.
Jack, he admits, has not tried every possible means. Columnists do not have to be pragmatic. They can figure things out through pure speculation. And he has given consideration to riddance methods, ranging from the most violent and primit ive means of destruction in keeping with a recommendation in“a poem by Yeats for “a bloody and a sudden end” “gunshot, or noose." to more subtle forms of capital punishment, ■ originally supported by I liberal executioners—the <
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