Sometimes a kind of glory lights up the mind of a man.

All great and precious things are lonely.

And, of course, people are interested only in themselves. If a story is not about the hearer he will not listen.

It was too nerve-wracking, a shocking spectacle, like seeing an old, calm friend go insane.

The camera is one of the most frightening of modern weapons, particularly to people who have been in warfare, who have been bombed and shelled for at the back of a bombing run is invariably a photograph. In the back of ruined towns, and cities, and factories, there is aerial mapping, or spy mapping, usually with a camera. Therefore the camera is a feared instrument, and a man with a camera is suspected and watched wherever he goes... In the minds of most people today the camera is the forerunner of destruction, and it is suspected, and rightly so.

So in our pride we ordered for breakfast an omelet, toast and coffee and what has just arrived is a tomato salad with onions, a dish of pickles, a big slice of watermelon and two bottles of cream soda.

It is the nature of man to rise to greatness if greatness is expected of him.