Questions invaded my mind and I was young and skeptical, wanting to believe in the power of the mind, wanting to believe in the power of intellectual… - Sherwood Anderson

you have perhaps seen, blinking in a corner of his iron cage, a huge, grotesque kind of monkey, a creature with ugly, sagging, hairless skin below his eyes and a bright purple underbody. This monkey is a true monster. In the completeness of his ugliness he achieved a kind of perverted beauty. Children stopping before the cage are fascinated, men turn away with an air of disgust, and women linger for a moment, trying perhaps to remember which one of their male acquaintances the thing in some faint way resembles.

The writer, an old man with a white mustache, had some difficulty in getting into bed.

Ansía con todo su corazón acercarse a algún otro ser humano, tocar a alguien con las manos, que alguien le toque. Si prefiere que ese otro sea una mujer, es porque piensa que una mujer será amable y le comprenderá. Busca, ante todo, comprensión