but this metropolis , this attenuated and milder version of predation , savage in its own way especially to those who are homeless and without employable skills , those deemed of no commercial worth , is a monochrome eden not merely for its ever growing scaffolding florid around the ordure of fetid slums or its languorous plebeian consumers , western philosophy professing bums like me , who circle around this great city within the kaleidoscope of the hot sun and within the kaleidoscope of their thoughts while so many others are suffering automatons .