If You Think Too Far

I Think Americans Are Terrified Of Feeling Anything. I Never Met A People More Infantile In My Life.

The Occurrence Of An Event Is Not The Same Thing As Knowing What It Is That One Has Lived Through.

We Take Our Shape, It Is True, Within And Against That Cage Of Reality Bequeathed Us At Our Birth; And Yet It Is Precisely Through Our Dependence On This Reality That We Are Most Endlessly Betrayed.

Yet I Also Suspected That What I Was Seeing Was But A Part Of The Truth And Perhaps Not Even The Most Important Part; Beneath These Faces, These Clothes, Accents, Rudenesses, Was Power And Sorrow, Both Unadmitted, Unrealized, The Power Of Inventors, The Sorrow Of The Disconnected.

An Identity Would Seem To Be Arrived At By The Way In Which The Person Faces And Uses His Experience.