"Old men in the bad old days used to renounce, retire, take to religion, spend their time thinking - Thinking! Now - such in progress - the old men work, the old men copulate, the old men have no time, no leisure from pleasure, not a moment to sit down and think - or if ever by some unlucky chance such crevice of time should yawn in the solid substance of their distractions, there is always soma, delicious soma.."