This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of the novel, "A Man's Life," by Charles Dickens. It's a quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Incidents in the Life of a Young Man," in which he says, "I am so excited, and feel like I should do something. I am about to take off my pants." This is a reference to the fact that the young man is about to leave his pants on and go out into the street. The young man, however, is not about to do anything rash. He's about to
This chapter's epigraph comes from the opening lines of the novel, "A Man's Life," by Charles Dickens. It's a quote from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Incidents in the Life of a Young Man," in which he says, "I am so excited, and feel like I should do something. I am about to take off my pants." This is a reference to the fact that the young man is about to leave his pants on and go out into the street. The young man, however, is not about to do anything rash. He's about to