Phaeton 45
it was impossible to fail, and to not knowing enough
to know when one was beaten, nothing could ever
go wrong.
We are losing the Empire because we have become
“sicklied o’er with the pale cast of thought.” The
intellectuals have made us like “the poor cat i’ the
adage.” The spirit of Hamlet has replaced that of
Macbeth. Macbeth only went wrong because the
heart was taken out of him by Macduff’s interpretation
of what the witches had said.
Coriolanus only failed when he stopped tothink. As
the poet says, ‘‘ The love of knowledge is the hate of
life.”’
Cocaine removes all hesitation. But our forefathers
owed their freedom of spirit to the real liberty which
they had won; and cocaine is merely Dutch courage.
However, while it lasts, it’s all right.