I didn't say Bob Marley wasn't a clean dude --his music sucks, though--- his followers look unkempt and shaggy. The world is appearance and nothing else: society is façade, smoky mirrors, pretense, cultivated manners...wear shitty plumage and scratch when it itches, but let not other see it or smell it. Sarah and i came from rich smug families. I met her years later at UCLA, she was a shadow of the beauty I'd met in her teens, she was wearing this salad vomity looking dress. We should have hit it off years a go, said she. 'Fate came to my rescue then,' I said-

The worst prejudice we acquire during our youth is the idea that life is serious. Children have the right instincts: they know that life is not serious, and treat it as a game... (Egon Friedell)