'For this is an era of hardboiled-dom. Today, the code of the athlete, of the tough boy is stronger than ever. Do you have feelings? There are correct and incorrect ways of indicating them. Do you have an inner life? It is nobody's business but your own. Do you have emotions? Strangle them. To a degree, everyone obeys this code. And it does admit of a limited kind of candor,a closemouthed straight-forwardness. But on the truest candor, it has an inhibitory effect. Most serious matters are closed to the hard-boiled. They are unpracticed in introspection, and therefore badly equipped to deal with opponents whom they cannot shoot like big game or outdo in daring.
If you have difficulties, grapple with them silently, goes one of their commandments.'
Dangling Man, Saul Bellow.
'A U.S. Marine wears the grime of battle on his face after two days and nights of fighting on the beach of Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands.'
