27 February

I have never really had to work, really ferociously work, at anything, much less for anything. But I shall learn to work for you, at persistence and fidelity. In several months there will be a vast numbing expanse of states-- Tennessee, Alabama, Georgia, the portentous splendor of each lost in its status of between-ness--for there are several hours between Lookout Mountain and Birmingham that shall separate your forehead from mine.