9/18 It is populous; it is crowded with writers, but it holds an easy place for every one. The silence of that community frightens the rich but its democracy pleases the poor." "I suppose, then, that you want to die." "I do." "But you didn't want to die yesterday ?" "Yes, it was the very time when I should have died--I had just eaten a good dinner. You don't know how to eat, John. Yes, you stuff yourself and think that you have dined. |