Canon 1 [The Price of Salt] (What use am I … if I’m living against my own grain?)

Wheat, glass, hair, marble, stones, foam

2021

“It was said or at least implied that my present course would bring me to the depths of human vice and degeneration. […] It is true, if I were to go on like this and be spied upon, attacked, never possessing one person long enough so that knowledge of a person is a superficial thing — that is degeneration. Or to live against one’s grain, that is degeneration by definition.”

- The Price of Salt, Patricia Highsmith, p. 221