Effloresce

Because we've simply cheated ourselves the whole way down the line.

We thought of life by analogy with a journey, with a pilgrimage,

Which had a serious purpose at the end, and the thing was to get to that end—

Success, or whatever it is, or maybe heaven—after you're dead.

But we missed the point the whole way along.

It was a musical thing and you were supposed to sing, or to dance, while the music was being played.

And when you think a bit about what people really want to do with their time;

What do they do when they're not being pushed around and somebody's telling them what to do?

They like to make rhythms. They listen to music,

They dance, or they sing, or they do something of a rhythmic nature.

That's the nature of this whole thing we're in, you see? It likes to swing. That's why it does it.