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@kid charlemagne what do you make of Ma Vlast? Do you hear God in it?

Can you expand on this? Do you have personal experience? I assume you mean off caffeine entirely, for long periods, which I think very few people I've met have done. (Many avoid stimulants entirely, but don't have a good sense of the on-/off-)

I knew @version would appreciate this line. I wrote it just for him, the board's only other DeLillo enjoyer.

The everlasting universe of things Flows through the mind, and rolls its rapid waves, Now dark—now glittering—now reflecting gloom— Now lending splendour, where from secret springs The source of human thought its tribute brings

What do you mean

They have not seen another world.

They are not in touch with God.

Note that I don't know if Kid is wealthy I have no idea and I wouldn't go around advertising it even if I did. I said he is high class. Totally different thing.

He looks like Percy Shelley, have you seen a photo?

Basically

Kid is high class and she claimed she couldn't afford a train tic

It's important to his development to spend at least five years there so he can eventually renounce it and move to the countryside with his beautiful wife

Thanks line b you know how to cheer a man up

could be class dynamics at play. Had a similar experience once. Kid, why leaving New York soon?

In touch with God, they are.

Music is always the thing I held most dearly. Prized highest. Purest art. If I could've been anything in this world it would've been a composer.

I always wondered why there wasn't more beauty in the world. I thought, Are people stupid or something? I didn't understand the obstacles the world puts up.

What did I want, at the beginning? Perhaps I can get back there. Just to make something beautiful before I died, I guess. Even there, impotence. A hundred songs never finished none of them worthy. A hundred poems never finished none of them worthy. A hundred essays none of them worthy none of...

There are many things I felt would surely have come by now. Even small things. A sense of relief that a step has been made in a direction. Perhaps many of the things I have been pushing for, for many years, are close at hand now. They seem close, right over the horizon, but that horizon keeps...