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WHEN YOU LOSE YOUR GOD
Ernest Hemingway wrote of the crash of 1929 when men who adored money lost their “god”: “Some made the long drop from the apartment or the office window; some took it quietly in the two car garage with the motor running; some used the native tradition of the Colt or Smith and Wesson; those well-constructed weapons which end insomnia, terminate remorse, cure cancer, avoid bankruptcy, blast an exit from intolerable positions by the pressure of a finger; those admirable American instruments so easily carried, so sure of effect, so well designed to end the American dream when it becomes a nightmare, their only drawback is the mess they leave for relatives to clean up.” Ernest Hemingway, “To Have and Have Not,” in Christian Communications Laboratory