I still think that there is some justification for this attitude; and I do not repudiate it. However, simply ignoring everything and retreating into an ivory tower, the way I imagined it then, was not the right thing to do. I thank God that my attempt to do so failed quickly and thoroughly. Some of my acquaintances’ attempts did not fail so quickly, and they had to pay a high price to learn that one can sometimes only save the peace of one’s soul by sacrificing and relinquishing it.
