She is so totally absorbed in a vocation - both a gift and a mastering passion - that she has no time to be absorbed with the self's worries about itself. And that is the moral of the story: You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love.

The morning after: American successes and excesses, 1981-1986 (ed. Free Pr, 1986) - ISBN: 9780029344309