long drives to no where, writing
"Life is, in fact, a battle. Evil is insolent and strong; beauty, enchanting but rare; goodness very apt to be weak, folly very apt to be defiant; wickedness to carry the day. Imbeciles to be in great places; people of sense in small, and mankind generally unhappy. But the world as it stands is no illusion, no phantasm, no evil dream of a night. We wake up to it again forever and ever. We can neither forget it; nor deny it; nor dispense with it."
Maria Wyeth from "Play it as it Lays"