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Why so careworn, my friend, and why do you look out of the car window with downcast eyes? You are thinking of the past.

"You have guessed right. I am a great friend of traveling by rail, for it allows one's person to catch up with one's thoughts as quickly as possible, but here in America my thoughts generally go backward, while the locomotive drags my person forward. If I undertake even the smallest journey here I am in memory continually traveling in Europe, and I then feel more than ever what we are missing here. A country in which travel affords no pleasure, life, too, can have no true pleasures to offer. When I am traveling I feel more than ever that I am an exile, and it is more than ever made clear to me that life here is a torture when' I am intent on recreation."

In some respects I must agree with you in your condemnation of American life, but you are wrong, and it is your own loss if you find nothing to compensate you for its deprivations. To me liberty alone is a sufficient compensation for everything that Europe could offer me.