The word together has become a tabu devil; everything is public except guilt, which is hidden like hands that are pursed and pocketed lest they be demanded for hand-shaking, which is some uneasy, first sin; touch a man and the blood goes out of his cheek; the mountains the hills and the grass are turning against men, and every man dreads every man.
- Edward Dahlberg, "The Leafless American"
