Article August 19, 1972 Issue

The Answer to Despair

GENE HARNEY

There is a story that once a man dropped in to visit the devil at his workshop. He browsed among the various tools, and saw a wedge-shaped one.

"What do you use that for?" he asked, pointing.

"Oh, that!" the devil called from his workbench, "that's my favorite tool. I use it with almost everyone. It works when all else fails. I've named it Discouragement."

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