Dedication
TO MY FRIEND
LAURITZ MELCHIOR AND, THROUGH HIM, TO ALL MY FRIENDS IN DENMARK — THIS BOOK — IS DEDICATED
MOTTO
Epigraph
to me over the past
Decillions.
There is no better than it
And now. What behaves well
In the past or behaves well
To-day is not such a wonder.
The wonder is always and
Always how there can be
A mean man or an infidel.”
Walt Whitman.