Guardians of Grail

cheapbag214s · Posted: Fri 21:26, 30 Aug 2013 Post subject: Daily Routines

Daily Routines
Nearly every morning of his life, Mister Rogers has gone swimming,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and now, here he is, standing in a locker room, seventy years old and as white as the Easter Bunny, rimed with frost wherever he has hair, gnawed pink in the spots where his dry skin has gone to flaking, slightly wattled at the neck, slightly stooped at the shoulder, slightly sunken in the chest, slightly curvy at the hips, slightly pigeoned at the toes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], slightly aswing at the fine bobbing nest of himself. and yet when he speaks,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], it is in that voice,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], his voice, the famous one, the unmistakable one, the televised one, the voice dressed in sweater and sneakers, the soft one,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the reassuring one,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], the curious and expository one, the sly voice that sounds adult to the ears of children and childish to the ears of adults,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and what he says, in the midst of all his bobbing-nudity, is as understated as it is obvious: "Well, Tom, I guess you already gotten a deeper glimpse into my daily routine than most people have."
ONCE UPON A TIME, a long time ago, a man took off his jacket and put on a sweater. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of sneakers. His name was Fred Rogers. He was starting a television program, aimed at children, called Mister Rogers Neighborhood. He had been on television before, but only as the voices and movements of puppets, on a program called The Children Corner. Now he was stepping in front of the camera as Mister Rogers, and he wanted to do things right, and whatever he did right, he wanted to repeat. And so, once upon a time, Fred Rogers took off his jacket and put on a sweater his mother had made him,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], a cardigan with a zipper. Then he took off his shoes and put on a pair of navy-blue canvas boating sneakers. He did the same thing the next day, and then the next. until he had done the same things, those things, 865 times,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], at the beginning of 865 television programs, over a span of thirty-one years. The first time I met Mister Rogers,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], he told me a story of how deeply his simple gestures had been felt, and received. He had just come back from visiting Koko, the gorilla who has learned--or who has been taught--American Sign Language. Koko watches television. Koko watches Mister Rogers Neighborhood,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and when Mister Rogers, in his sweater and sneakers, entered the place where she lives, Koko immediately folded him in her long,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], black arms,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], as though he were a child, and then. "She took my shoes off, Tom," Mister Rogers said.
Koko was much bigger than Mister Rogers. She weighed 280 pounds, and Mister Rogers weighed 143. Koko weighed 280 pounds because she is a gorilla, and Mister Rogers weighed 143 pounds because he has weighed 143 pounds as long as he has been Mister Rogers, because once upon a time, around thirty-one years ago, Mister Rogers stepped on a scale, and the scale told him that Mister Rogers weighs 143 pounds. No, not that he weighed 143 pounds, but that he weighs 143 pounds. And so, every day, Mister Rogers refuses to do anything that would make his weight change--he neither drinks, nor smokes,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], nor eats flesh of any kind, nor goes to bed late at night, nor sleeps late in the morning, nor even watches television--and every morning, when he swims, he steps on a scale in his bathing suit and his bathing cap and his goggles,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and the scale tells him he weighs 143 pounds. This has happened so many times that Mister Rogers has come to see that number as a gift, as a destiny fulfilled, because, as he says, "the number 143 means `I love you. It takes one letter to say and four letters to say `love and three letters to say `you. One hundred and forty-three. `I love you. Isn that wonderful?"
THE FIRST TIME I CALLED MISTER ROGERS on the telephone, I woke him up from his nap. He takes a nap every day in the late afternoon--just as he wakes up every morning at five-thirty to read and study and write and pray for the legions who have requested his prayers; just as he goes to bed at nine-thirty at night and sleeps eight hours without interruption.
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