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Where There Is Nothing 259
Paul Ruttledge. Oh, yes, I understand. You would
weave them together like this, you would add one thing
to another, laws and money and church and bells, till you
had got everything back again that you have escaped
from. But it is my business to tear things asunder.
Aloysius. Brother Paul, it is what I am thinking;
now the tinkers have come back to you, you could begin
to gather a sort of an army; you can t fight your battle
without an army. They would call to the other tinkers,
and the tramps and the beggars, and the sieve-makers and
all the wandering people. It would be a great army.
Paul Ruttledge. Yes, that would be a great army, a
great wandering army.
Aloysius. The people would be afraid to refuse us
then ; we would march on
Paul Ruttledge. We could march on. We could
march on the towns, and we could break up all settled or
der; we could bring back the old joyful, dangerous, indi
vidual life. We would have banners. We will have
one great banner that will go in front, it will take two
men to carry it, and on it we will have Laughter
Aloysius. That will be the banner for the front.
We will have different troops, we will have captains to
organize them, to give them orders.
Paul Ruttledge. To organize? That is to bring in
law and number. Organize organize that is how
all the mischief has been done. I was forgetting, we
cannot destroy the world with armies; it is inside our
minds that it must be destroyed.
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