A year before Ihad done what new writers were always doing--I had sent him a book I hadwritten, and he had done what he was always doing--acknowledged it with akindly letter. One man knowsthere is a hell, the next one knows there isn't; one man knows hightariff is right, the next man knows it isn't; And I've been a prospector, and know pay rock from poor when I find it--just with a touch of the tongue. Was it an illusion? I am reading Lowell's letters & smoking.
And again Susy was there, not waving her welcome in the glare of thelights as she had waved her farewel For culture has got into new regions where I cannot enter, and, what is perhaps worse, I find myself delighting in a great many things which are under the ban of culture. Such a figure in Germany would live naturally inBerlin; in England London; in France, Paris; in Austria, Vienna; inAmerica his headquarters could only be New York. I had overdone the thing.
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