Give me a secret and ill give you a life. All we talk about is how to go to hell,
but really if you think about it, aren't we already there.
The creepy crawlers fire in the night.
To light the bogeyman out of sight.
He the king of darkness but im the king of internal fire.
So GIVE me that secret boy and ill give you the desire.

London includes a quote about john thornton as he is observing hal attempt to motivate the exhausted dogs "it was idle, he knew, to get between a fool and his folly". if the word "idle" is defined as "of no real worth, importance, or significance", what does this statement mean with regard to hal? who is the fool? what is hal's folly? why would john thornton think it of no real worth or useless to intervene?

Why can’t the man get the third fire started?

Aside from his general attitude toward women, what kept cisneros father from appreciating her writing?