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@@@@@ I wonder if I shall be as dirty as you when I'm as old I'm afraid you'll always be pungent, my dear At the officers' dance on Saturday night, Margaret gets drunk a little more frequentlyThere are times when an indiscretion is not too far away Captain, I see you're all alone, one of the officers' ladies remarks Yes, I'm afraid I'm a little too old-fashioned(Her husband has been commissioned after 1918 One of my more recurrent regrets is that I never learned to dance well(His manner, which is to set him off from other professional officers, is beginning in these years(At the other end of the officers' club, Margaret is the center of a circle of menShe is laughing loudly now, her hand on the sleeve of a second lieutenant's blouse He stares across at her with loathing and disgust From Webster's: hatred, n strong aversion or detestation; settled ill will or malevolence A thread in most marriages, growing dominant in Cummings's The cold form of it He is all application now, all studyAt night, in the parlor of the succession of post houses in which they live, he reads five or six nights a weekThere is all the education he has missed, and he takes giant strides in recouping itThere is philosophy first, and then political science, sociology, psychology, history, even literature and artHe absorbs it all with the fantastic powers of memory and assimilation he can exhibit at times, absorbs it and immediately transmutes it into something else, satisfies the dominant warp of his mind It comes out a little in the infrequent intellectual discussions he can find on an Army postI find Freud rather stimulating, he saysThe idea is that man is a worthless bastard, and the only problem is how best to control him In 1931 Spengler is particularly congeni