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Title: The Acorn-Planter
A California Forest Play (1916)
Author: Jack London
Release Date: July 19, 2007 [EBook #22104]
Language: English
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THE ACORN-PLANTER
A California Forest Play
Planned To Be Sung By Efficient Singers
Accompanied By A Capable Orchestra
By Jack London
1916
ARGUMENT
In the morning of the world, while his tribe
makes its camp for the night in a grove, Red
Cloud, the first man of men, and the first man
of the Nishinam, save in war, sings of the duty
of life, which duty is to make life more abundant.
The Shaman, or medicine man, sings of
foreboding and prophecy. The War Chief, who
commands in war, sings that war is the only
way to life. This Red Cloud denies, affirming
that the way of life is the way of the acornplanter,
and that whoso slays one man slays
the planter of many acorns. Red Cloud wins
the Shaman and the people to his contention.
After the passage of thousands of years, again
in the grove appear the Nishinam. In Red
Cloud, the War Chief, the Shaman, and the
Dew-Woman are repeated the eternal figures
of the philosopher, the soldier, the priest, an