Our easy bones groaned, our flesh bakedon one side and shuddered on the other; and each manthought bitterly about primitive simplicityand decadence, and how he had been ruinedby civilization and forced by circumstancesto drink and smoke and sit up all nightinspecting those perfectly arbitrary cardsuntil he was broken-winded as a trout on a rockand had no use for the doctrines of Jean JacquesRousseau, and could no longer afforda savagery whether noble or not;
-Howard Nemerov
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