I had been trained as a hospital technician in the army, and instead of the gleaming lab job uptown by which I had hoped to pay for graduate school, I was working in a defunct office building on the edge of the Lower East Side. 

Great art is clear thinking about mixed feelings, said Auden.

 

A neighbor of mine shoots beavers because they cut “his” trees. Another guy shoots a nesting loon because it eats “his” fish. Another shoots a coyote because it eats “his” deer.