I acquired expensive habits and affected manners.  I got a third class degree and a first class illusion: that I was a poet.

Men see objects, women see the relationship between objects. ... It is an extra dimension of feeling we men are without and one that makes war abhorrent to all real women – and absurd. ... War is a psychosis caused by an inablity to see relationships.

This is true of all collecting. It extinguishes the moral instinct. The object finally possesses the possessor.