limited minds can recognize limitations only in others. - Jack London

But at the best, it is a dull, animal happiness, the content of the full belly. The dominant note of their lives is materialistic. They are stupid and heavy, without imagination. The Abyss seems to exude a stupefying atmosphere of torpor, which wraps about them and deadens them. Religion passes them by. The Unseen holds for them neither terror nor delight. They are unaware of the Unseen; and the full belly and the evening pipe, with their regular “arf an’ arf,” is all they demand, or dream of demanding, from existence.

My first thought was that a man who had come through a collision and rubbed shoulders with death merited more attention than I received.

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.