some of my widest thoughts come to me then.
I feel an overwhelming wave of a kind of pantheism which, at the moment I feel it, begins slowly to grow less and less and continues in this until finally it dwindles to a Pile of Stones and a Barrel of Lime.
I feel at the moment that the universe is a Pile of Stones and a Barrel of Lime. They alone are the Real Things.
Take anything at any point and deceive yourself into thinking that you are happy with it. But look at it heavily; dig down underneath the layers and layers of rose-colored mists and you will find that your Thing is a Pile of Stones and a Barrel of Lime.
A struggle or two, a fight, an agony, a passing—and then the only Real Things: a Pile of Stones and a Barrel of Lime.
Damn everything! Afterward you will find that you have done all your damning for naught. For there is
