6/24/2023 0 Comments Cannery row goodreads![]() ![]() If he ignores the debt it poisons him, and if he tries to make payments the debt only increases, and the quality of his gift is the measure of the man. by John Steinbeck First published January 1945 Published February 5th 2002 by Penguin Books. Men seem to be born with a debt they can never pay no matter how hard they try. "What has my life meant so far, and what can it mean in the time left to me?" And now we're coming to the wicked, poisoned dart: "What have I contributed in the Great Ledger? What am I worth?" And this isn't vanity or ambition. ![]() The end of life is now not so terribly far away - you can see it the way you see the finish line when you come into the stretch - and your mind says, "Have I worked enough? Have I eaten enough? Have I loved enough?" All of these, of course, are the foundation of man's greatest curse, and perhaps his greatest glory. And to prod all these there's time, the bastard Time. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. “Now discontent nibbled at him - not painfully, but constantly. ![]()
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