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."You mean I'm failing?""No.Sometimes events are stronger than people.To change thought patterns and action patterns because of difficulties is folly.That is failure.""I don't follow, Little Father," said Remo who had expected an unbroken string of I-told-you-sos after the loss of Kaufmann, for had not Chiun warned there was no chance of saving the man."Didn't you criticize me on the Army post for doing the same thing over and over again? Remember? The rice and the leaky fence and the dead dog?""You never listen.I did not criticize you for that.I was explaining a fact to you, that that man was dead.But I did not say you should change.If a farmer plants rice for tens of years and then one year he has a bad harvest, should he stop planting rice?""He should find out why the crop failed," Remo said."That would be nice, but not necessary," said Chiun."He should keep planting rice in the way that has worked so many times before.""Wrong," said Remo."It's necessary to find out what went bad.""If you say so," said Chiun with unexpected mildness."And another thing," said Remo."Why aren't you carping as much as you usually do?""Carp?" said Chiun."Is that not the word for complaining? Is that not the word for ridiculing? Is that not the word for incessant demeaning chatter?""It is," said Remo, watching the beefy cab driver load Chiun's trunks into the back of the cab and the cab trunk and on the cab roof.The Chicago air smelled so heavily of soot you could ladle it into bowls.One of the disadvantages of using more of your senses was that when you were alive in air like this, you would just as soon have them dormant.To breathe Chicago air was a meal."You say I carp?" Chiun said."Well, yes.Sometimes.""I carp?""Yes.""I carp!""Yes.""I take a pale piece of a pig's ear, raise it above what it came from, give it powers and senses beyond any its family history has ever known, and I carp."I glorify it beyond its boundaries and it goes around giving away secrets to a charlatan who babbles about mind waves and breathing.I give it wisdom and it spurns it.I nurture and love it and it produces putrescence and complaints that I carp.I carp!""Did you say 'love,' Little Father?""Only as a form of lying white speech.After all, I am a carper.I carp."Chiun asked the cab driver, who was now facing heavy traffic on the way into downtown Chicago, whether he heard any carping."Of the two, who would you say is the carper?" Chiun demanded."Be honest now.""The white guy," said the cab driver."How did you do that?" Remo asked, not having seen any currency pass between Chiun and the driver or Chiun leaning into one of the man's pressure points."I trust in the honesty of our good driver.All in the West is not foul or ungrateful or complaining.I carp, Tieh, heh," cackled Chiun."I carp."There were a multitude of reasons why Chiun could not possibly carp.Remo heard every one of them in detail on the way to the board of education, the last one being it was not Chiun who had lost Kaufmann, not Chiun who had said fifty-seven different gambling odds, not Chiun who had wasted his time at that Army post.Why not Chiun? Because Chiun was not a carper."Look, Little Father, I'm a bit worried.Smitty said we should stay away from Chicago until he could find out more about that guy.Maybe I'm not doing the right thing."And on this rare occasion, the Master of Sinanju yelled: "Who have I taught, you or your Smith? Who knows what is right, some seedling emperor, of which are there many each generation, or the skilled product of Sinanju? You are wonderful, fool, and you do not comprehend this yet.""Wonderful, Little Father?""Do not listen to me.I carp," said Chiun."But know you this.While you were at that Army outpost, doing what a mere emperor told you to do, you failed.Now you will succeed because you do what you know to do, what I have taught you to do.Sitting, even a stone is not safe.Rolling, it carries all before it.Go
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