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Adventures in Contentment
·
David Grayson
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The
most
distressing
thing
about
the
ordinary
fact
writer
is
his
cock-sureness.
Why,
here
is
a
man
(I
have
not
yet
dropped
him
out
of
the
window)
who
has
written
a
large
and
sober
book
explaining
life.
And
do
you
know
when
he
gets
through
he
is
apparently
much
discouraged
about
this
universe.
This
is
the
veritable
moment
when
I
am
in
love
with
my
occupation
as
a
despot!
At
this
moment
I
will
exercise
the
prerogative
of
tyranny:
"Off
with
his
head!"
I
do
not
believe
this
person
though
he
have
ever
so
many
titles
to
jingle
after
his
name,
nor
in
the
colleges
which
gave
them,
if
they
stand
sponsor
for
that
which
he
writes,
I
do
not
believe
he
has
compassed
this
universe.
I
believe
him
to
be
an
inconsequent
being
like
myself--oh,
much
more
learned,
of
course--and
yet
only
upon
the
threshold
of
these
wonders.
It
goes
too
deep--life--to
be
solved
by
fifty
years
of
living.
There
is
far
too
much
in
the
blue
firmament,
too
many
stars,
to
be
dissolved
in
the
feeble
logic
of
a
single
brain.
We
are
not
yet
great
enough,
even
this
explanatory
person,
to
grasp
the
"scheme
of
things
entire."
This
is
no
place
for
weak
pessimism--this
universe.
This
is
Mystery
and
out
of
Mystery
springs
the
fine
adventure!
What
we
have
seen
or
felt,
what
we
think
we
know,
are
insignificant
compared
with
that
which
may
be
known.
What
this
person
explains
is
not,
after
all,
the
Universe--but
himself,
his
own
limited,
faithless
personality.
I
shall
not
accept
his
explanation.
I
escape
him
utterly!
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