All the King's Men - Robert Penn Warren [282]
by trying to face the crisis. Burden, at the moment unable to find meaning in his own life, simply flees from the reproach implicit in the materials of the dissertation. So he is prepared, for the time being anyway, to accept another version of the world, a sort of mirror-image of that inhabited by Cass Mastern; he takes refuge in the one offered by Willie Stark.
But that is not the end of the story.
Robert Penn Warren
West Wardsboro, Vermont
July 14, 1973