 You can't corrupt it any more than you can salt salt. You can't corrupt it because that's what it is. He could see the truck in the moonlight at the top of the rise, and he looked off to one side to see it better. There was something standing beside it. Then they were gone. There's no description of a fool, he said, that you fail to satisfy. Now you're going to die. People will tell you it was Vietnam that brought this country to its knees.