I write for myself and strangers. The strangers, dear Readers, are an afterthought.
You are all a lost generation.
It is so friendly so simply friendly and though inevitable not a sadness and though occurring not a shock.
Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.
"Native" always means people who belong someplace else, because they had once belonged somewhere. That shows that the white race does not really think they belong anywhere, because they think of everybody else as native.
A little artist has all the tragic unhappiness and the sorrows of a great artist and he is not a great artist.