learned from both of you the stern lesson of acceptance: to acknowledge the tragic underweft of life into which man is born, through which he must live, out of which he must die. I learned from both of you to accept that essential fact without complaint, but, having accepted it, to try to do what was before me, what I could do, with all my might. And, curiously—for here comes in the strange, hard paradox of our twin polarity—it was just here, I think, where I was so much and
