is, not this, the carpenter's son?

Both of these diatheses are the results and concomitants of depressed vitality; but the nervous is peculiar to brain-workers and civilization, while the tuberculous also afflicts the day-laborer and the savage.*

Darling, there is something unspoken here. A map to a life we could’ve lived. Once at Happy Hollow, while looking for the Deaf, we found ourselves lost in the company of Ibalois. Later, I saw him at the mall—sewn on his chest pocket [I am Hard of Hearing], they made him mop the floor. A confession: coins and paper bills disheveled in my pocket. A tabernacle in between eight others. You are the liquor and the word of God. An intoxicating devotion worth nine thousand pesos. And seventy hours a month spent standing beside a magazine rack.

* American Nervousness: Its Causes and Consequences (1881) by George Miller Beard.