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The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 9, Issue 6 (September 1, 1934)

The Sweet Buy and Buy

The Sweet Buy and Buy.

The time man spends in trying to find out where he came from might be better spent in trying to work out where he's going to. He has taken so long getting to where he has got that he has forgotten how he got where he is; and so, to keep his mind off where he is drifting to, he digs up the past to discover where he has drifted from. He has found out almost all about man—except why man is. He has dug up osseous oddments' of prehistoric personalities with skulls so thick that they must have belonged to a civilised race. He has unearthed obsequiel segments of persons so pre-dated that they thought jelly-fish were high-brow, and the result is that he has given himself an inferiority complex because he has discovered that he branched off the same family tree as the monkey. This branching was a fortunate thing for the monkey, who is still comparatively happy, thanks to his fondness for swinging by his anterior appendage and eating bananas upside down. But man has lost at both ends, for he is neither happy nor happy. But there are people who, out of respect for the merry “munk” refuse to admit him as a relation; and why drag him in, anyway, when he is so happy? He is content to “swing for it” and let the rest of the world go buy. The fact that he never buys explains why he is never “sold.” Man's trouble is that he has allowed himself to drift into the sweet buy and buy; he has to buy and buy to keep ahead over his roof, and vicey worser.