healthy and comfortable the example, the more sick and impoverished the soul.  The spirit is held back by convolutions of fat.
      Dec. 27, 1924
     Reading in Moby Dick on p. 586 – the description of the end of the day after a hard day of chasing whales.  Must a man after all be a hard physical worker to enjoy the world.  It would seem so – the only time that I ever felt anything like the magnificent feeling Melville gives expression to was the evening of the day I rode from Cleveland to Salem on my wheel and sank down on the bank to rest at eventide – with the great silvered dapples a above me.  Another time, too, was after working on the farm at Kennichau a day of loading hay and riding to the barn on the rick.  We men who earn our daily bread by the sweat of our brains, do not live completely – only half of us lives, and therefore our impressions of things are apt to be circumspect and nice.