"These people were enjoying a day of their existence; they were shrieking to the sky their release from the work and the burdens of the days behind them; they had worked and carried the burdens in order to reach a goal - and this was the goal. [Howard] looked at the car as it streaked past. He thought that there was a difference, some important difference, between the consciousness of this day in him and in them."
This occurs while Howard is positively joyful, because he is finally watching his first house getting built. He then watches a car race past with a group of joyful people. The difference is that Howard is deriving his joy from his work, while these people are joyful precisely because they are away from their work.
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