I Owe A Lot To My Teachers

The Classical Scholars Have Kept Alive The Tradition Of The Superiority Of The Ancient Languages -- A Kaleidoscopic Mass Of Suffixes And Prefixes, Supposed To Represent An Infinite Shading Of Meaning. It Is A Character They Share With The Ojibway And The Zulu.

It May Be Those Who Do Most, Dream Most.

I Owe A Lot To My Teachers And Mean To Pay Them Back Some Day.

How Strange It Is, Our Little Procession Of Life! The Child Says, "when I Am A Big Boy." But What Is That? The Big Boy Says, "when I Grow Up." And Then, Grown Up, He Says, "when I Get Married." But To Be Married, What Is That After All? The Thought Changes To "when I'm Able To Retire." And Then, When Retirement Comes, He Looks Back Over The Landscape Traversed; A Cold Wind Seems To Sweep Over It; Somehow He Has Missed It All, And It Is Gone.

The Road Comes To An End Just When It Ought To Be Getting Somewhere. The Passengers Alight, Shaken And Weary, To Begin, All Over Again, Something Else.