this personal gift to Fred Waring from American cartoonist Otto Soglow

is housed in the portion of the   Fred Waring’s America Collection

identified as   Fred Waring’s Cartoon Collection

 in the Pattee and Paterno Library on the campus of

Pennsylvania State University[i]

WE  PRESENT :

a

( careful )

look

at

mj lorenzo’s

Tales of Waring

( for this reason, that : )

The highest wish you can wish for

is to be able to speak

the messages of

God

as

Paul the Apostle

said in his

First Letter to the new Christians at Corinth

chapter 14, verse 1

approx. 55-57 CE

 according to the
 J. B. Phillips translation from Greek

( and yet : )

God

is dead

BUT
considering the state the species Man is in

      there will perhaps be caves

for ages yet

        in which his shadow will be shown

as

Friedrich Nietzsche

said

quite famously
in his

The Gay Science

1882 CE  passim

( and then this happened : )

Almost every tribe or people had used a different name for the earth-mother goddess

going practically all the way back to her biggest heyday during the Stone Age

and a different name for her son, the wine

God

but almost every civilization or culture had worshiped both deities

and they were almost always linked

an earth mother
and her wine-god son who had been and/or would be
cut up in pieces and/or sacrificed in some form.

AND

Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians
for some apparently deep and unconscious
human psychological reason

had just spent the last 56 years playing the whole thing out

right down to the gruesome sacrifice of the wine God.

AS IF:
Fred really HAD been as worthy of deification as his devotees had acted
and really HAD been the Wine
God
son of the Earth-Mother goddess
Everybody’s-Mother
Betty Ann.

as

mj lorenzo

 said in his

Tales of Waring

chapter:

“How Important is Betty Ann?”