"All right-the Mr. Vinsons. Once you get past all the Mr. Vinsons, youre going to start getting closer & closer-that is, if you want to, and if you look for it & wait for it-to the kind of information that will be very, very dear to your heart. Among other things, youll find that youre not the first person who was ever confused & frightened & even sickened by human behavior. Youre by no means alone on that score, youll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally & spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept record of their troubles. Youll learn from them-if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. Its a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isnt education. Its history. Its poetry."