‘What I hoped for is indeed beyond hope,’ he said. ‘I was out of my mind, looking for this year’s birds in last year’s nests. And all around me America – and not only America, the whole human race! – yes, even our India! – was also losing its reason, its capacity for ethics, its goodness, its soul. And it may be, I can’t say, that this deep failure brought down upon us the deeper failure of the cosmos.
