"Our society puts great store on 'doing.' All around us we see people working at it even when they no longer have to 'do,' as if in dread of a quiet moment that might bring them face to face with themselves. This way it is possible for a man's life to be lost to him, for him to feel at the last moment that his existence had been no more than a bullet fired point blank at the earth... Probably I am only flattering myself by imagining that my successful...