I Seldom Try To Probe The Mystery

I Doubt If One Ever Accepts A Belief Until One Urgently Needs It.

The Town Is An Advertisement For Itself; None Of Its Charms Are Left To The Visitor's Imagination.

I Am Alive, He Says To Himself, I Am Alive! And Life Energy Surges Hotly Through Him, And Delight, And Appetite. How Good To Be In A Body - Even This Old Beat-up Carcass - That Still Has Warm Blood And Live Semen And Rich Marrow And Wholesome Flesh!

I Am A Camera With Its Shutter Open, Quite Passive, Recording, Not Thinking.

But Now Isn’t Simply Now. Now Is Also A Cold Reminder: One Whole Day Later Than Yesterday, One Year Later Than Last Year. Every Now Is Labeled With Its Date, Rendering All Past Nows Obsolete, Until — Later Of Sooner — Perhaps — No, Not Perhaps — Quite Certainly: It Will Come.