By Things So Achingly Small Are Lives

What Man Would Dare Believe That All He Planned Might Come To Pass?

When I Was 18 Years Old, In A More Innocent Time, My First Backpacking Trip Through Europe, I Sneaked Into The Temple Of Saturn In The Roman Forum After Nightfall And Spent Several Hours In There Avoiding The Guards Patrolling.

The Military Preferred - Invariably - Those Who Could Be Readily Defined, Assigned Roles, Understood, And Controlled.

Fantasy Is, At Its Best, The Purest Access To Storytelling That We Have. It Universalizes A Tale, It Evokes Wonder And Timeless Narrative Power, It Touches Upon Inner Journeys, It Illuminates Our Collective And Individual Pasts, Throws A Focus Beam On The Present Day, And Presages The Dangers And Promises Of The Future.

Irritation For Some Men Was Their Response To Strain.