To be joyous is to be a madman in a world of sad ghosts.
The American white man (not to speak of the Indian, the Negro, the Mexican) hasn't a ghost of a chance. If he has any talent he's doomed to have it crushed one way or another. The American way is to seduce a man by bribery and make a prostitute of him. Or else to ignore him, starve him into submission and make a hack of him.
Once you have given up the ghost, everything follows with dead certainty, even in the midst of chaos.
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