They love flowers, music, dancing, and games, and are childishly simple and happy in their amusements, though cruelly savage in their angers and wars.
I, Adam Strang, know my past, but do not seem to think much about it.

I live in the present.

I brood neither over past nor future.

I am careless, improvident, uncautious, happy out of sheer well-being and overplus of physical energy.

Fish, fruits, vegetables, and seaweed--a full stomach--and I am content.