"This fall I think you're riding for - it's a special kind of fall, a horrible
kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He
just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who,
at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own
environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment
couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before
they ever really even got started."
"Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You're by no means alone on that score, you'll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn't education. It's history. It's poetry."
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