There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew nothing, and a great conspiracy Of books and people hid the truth from me.


Novels, 1955-1962 (ed. Library of America, 1996)


There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew ...

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew ...

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew ...

There was a time in my demented youth When somehow I suspected that the truth About survival after death was known To every human being: I alone Knew ...