These boys, now, were living as we'd been living then, theywere growing up with a rush and their heads bumped abruptlyagainst the low ceiling of their actual possibilities. They werefilled with rage. All they really knew were two darknesses, thedarkness of their lives, which was now closing in on them, andthe darkness of the movies, which had blinded them to thatother darkness, and in which they now, vindictively, dreamed,at once more together than they were at any other time, andmore alone.