It is strange that this orphic saint who dined on clouds became a prophet of the culture's materialism.
In orphic language and with copybook maxims, they all attempt the peculiarly American feat of relating the arcane and the infinite with dollar--cents success.
There in orphic rapture he touches a dark string in his nature, and a rich defunctive music rises to the page: Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear Sparkling armada of promises .