I Had An Attack Of The Gout

News Is Like The Tilefish Which Appears In Great Schools Off The Atlantic Coast Some Years And Then Vanishes, No One Knows Whither Or For How Long. Newspapers Might Employ These Periods Searching For The Breeding Grounds Of News, But They Prefer To Fill Up With Stories About Kurdled Kurds Or Calvin Coolidge, Until The Banks Close Or A Hitler Marches, When They Are As Surprised As Their Readers.

People Everywhere Confuse What They Read In Newspapers With News.

No Ascetic Can Be Considered Reliably Sane.

I Had An Attack Of The Gout Two Days Before Pulling Out, And I Went Limping Off To The War Instead Of Coming Limping Back From It.

My Old Friend Looked At Me With A New Respect. He Was Discovering In Me A Capacity For Hypocrisy That He Had Never Credited Me With Before.