He wrote some lines, trying to remember the whole paragraph, but
failing, lines from Hermann Hesse's 'Demian'-..."because of my evil and
misfortune I stood higher than my father and the pious, the righteous..."

I almost wrote "eveil" and crossed it out-as if evil
veils something that is not evil as we understand it-a gift-live-
evil-veil-

-Denis Johnson
Already Dead