Where reputation is more vital than character.
Where sociability is a goal instead of a vice.
Where indirection is known as unselfishness and self-direction as egotism.
Where thinking is only a sort of autistic stammering.
Where genius, “being youth and wisdom,” is sent to school to learn—(Never mind; I can’t remember what).
Where impulse is assassinated before it can prove its worth.
Where one must achieve in gloom or be suspected of “lightness.”
Where beauty comes only when one has struggled beyond the need of it.
Where sex is known as the greatest human experience, and experience in sex as the greatest human sin.
Where religion is known to be an unfolding, but experience in unfolding looked upon as irreligious.