« O growing old! O haggard ugly ghoul is life’s decay! Started a life sweet child believing everything beneath his father’s roof; went from that, immersed and fooled, to that mask of disgusted flesh called a face but not the face that love had hoped for and to that soul of a gruesome grieving ghost that now goes shuddering through nightmare life cluttering up the earth as it dies. »
Kerouac, Jack. Visions of Cody. 1960. Penguin Books. p. 69