Davis did not so much want to run around and tell people as to feel safe filing insurance claims under his own name or attending support groups for solace--without the gossip mill getting hold of his story.
The final section of "Odysseus Abroad" is ironically entitled "Ithaca," and lacks Cavafy's optimism, though it is not without solace of its own.
"But scenery without solace is meaningless".
As he puts it: "Without the solace I've found in music, I would have gone mental".
He was meant to be, simply, the man who was able to live without religious solace, supported by faith in himself alone.
He will become the 21,140th burial in the bleak but dignified cemetery, one more reminder of the unique futility of death without the solace of a just cause.
Franny's family abandons the idea of faith in the end, but she perseveres — finding solace in a church without a Starbucks at a time when television has gone searching for depth in the world of altars and pews.
Because she could not complete her studies in the monastery she found solace in music - without realising her potential as a singer.
And there are plenty of up-to-date Americans who don't sleep easy without the emotional solace of a six-shooter beneath the pillow.
