When the world demands that you be larger than life, and you are finding it hard enough being life-size, you can come here, in the messy hemorrhaging of reality, let your hair down, take your girdle off, and not be embarrassed by your wounds and deformities. Here among the terminally disenchanted you are graded not by the size of the car on display in your driveway but by the size of your courage in the face of nameless things.
A Gypsy Good Time
Gustav Hasford
1992
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