title: The Warning
author: John Price
description: <span>John Price practiced law in Indiana for forty years. He was active in Hoosier governmental and political matters. He represented clients in numerous Constitutional law cases. He sought the Republican nomination for the U S Senate from Indiana, narrowly missing nomination by about one vote per precinct. John Price now devotes his time to writing, his wife, their four children and ten grandchildren, as well as serving as an Elder and Bible Study teacher in an English speaking missionary church in Central America.</span>
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  # April Fools
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  ABANDON ALL HOPE YE WHO ENTER HERE is scrawled in blood red lettering on the
  side of the Chemical Bank near the corner of Eleventh and First and is in
  print large enough to be seen from the backseat of the cab as it lurches
  forward in the traffic leaving Wall Street and just as Timothy Price notices
  the words a bus pulls up, the advertisement for _Les Misérables_ on its side
  blocking his view, but Price who is with Pierce & Pierce and twenty-six
  doesn’t seem to care because he tells the driver he will give him five dollars
  to turn up the radio, “Be My Baby” on WYNN, and the driver, black, not
  American, does so.
  
  
  
  
  
  “I’m resourceful,” Price is saying. “I’m creative, I’m young, unscrupulous,
  highly motivated, highly skilled. In essence what I’m saying is that society
  can _not_ afford to lose me. I’m an _asset._ ” Price calms down, continues to
  stare out the cab’s dirty window, probably at the word FEAR sprayed in red
  graffiti