Like most of the others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser.
I need beaches, and blackness, and moonlit nakedness.
I felt a tremendous distance between myself and everything real.
Buy the ticket, take the ride.
It will be a Religious War, a sort of Christian Jihad, fueled by religious hatred and led by merciless fanatics on both sides. It will be guerilla warfare on a global scale, with no front lines and no identifiable enemy.
The only thing that really worried me was the ether. There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. And I knew we'd get into that rotten stuff pretty soon. Probably at the next gas station.