Don't hate me now — they've torn away the ground from under me. (c)
There is something religious here, like responses in church — a reaffirmation of faith in the basic American dogma that it is, always, a good morning. Good, despite the Russians and their rockets, and all the ills and worries of the flesh. For of course we know, don't we, that the Russians and the worries are not really real? They can be un-thought and made to vanish. And therefore the morning can be made to be good. Very well then, it is good.
Christopher Isherwood "A Single Man"