与Hapgood的会面之所以出现，是因为我告诉Alex叔叔，在军队放手后，我可能会尝试在工会中找到一份工作。工会是当时从雇主那里勒索经济正义之类的东西的令人钦佩的工具。亚历克斯叔叔一定有这样的想法：上帝帮助我们。反对愚蠢的人，即使众神徒劳地争论。至少有一个哈佛男子可以与他讨论这个荒谬的梦想。 {是席勒首先对愚蠢和众神说了这一点。这是尼采的回答：反对无聊，甚至是徒劳的。}
(The meeting with Hapgood came about because I had told Uncle Alex that I might try to get a job with a labor union after the Army let me go. Unions were admirable instruments for extorting something like economic justice from employers then. Uncle Alex must have thought something like this: God help us. Against stupidity even the gods contend in vain. Well-at least there is a Harvard man with whom he can discuss this ridiculous dream. {It was Schiller who first said that about stupidity and the gods. This was Nietzsche's reply: Against boredom even the gods contend in vain.})