He came as a man who could do things for which the world gives a man a living.

“The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.” - Tender is the Night

“The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.” - Tender is the Night

His life had always seemed to shift between the poles of anchored loneliness and foot-loose voyagings – between wandering forever, and then the earth again – and now the old and restless urgings of ‘Where shall we go? And what shall we do’ again became insistent, would not down, and demanded of him a new answer.