A Man Could Get Used To Anything

When You Sleep, Your Dream World Is As Real To You As Life, Isn’t It?

But It Was Hard To Keep His Hands Still. He Could Almost Feel Them Twitching Emphatically With His Strong Desire To Reach Out And Stroke The Dog's Head. He Had Such A Terrible Yearning To Love Something Again, And The Dog Was Such A Beautiful Ugly Dog.

Not Only Did I Rediscover Every Experience Of My Life, I Had To Live Each Unfulfilled Desire As Well—as Though They’d Been Fulfilled. I Saw That What Transpires In The Mind Is Just As Real As Any Flesh And Blood Occurrence. What Had Only Been Imagination In Life, Now Became Tangible, Each Fantasy A Full Reality. I Lived Them All—while, At The Same Time, Standing To The Side, A Witness To Their, Often, Intimate Squalor. A Witness Cursed With Total Objectivity.

How Quickly One Accepts The Incredible If Only One Sees It Enough.

To Get Married And Have A Family, Is To Grow Up And Mature. It's The Only Way. You Can Read Philosophy Books For A Hundred Years, But If You Don't Get Married And Have A Family You Will Never Get It. They Soften You And Shape You, Mature You. Absolutely.