Fate And Victory Shift ... Now This

Writing, Im Convinced, Should Be A Subversive Activity - Frowned On By The Authorities - And Not One Cooed Over And Praised Beyond Common Sense By Some Teacher.

Luckily, Even As A Young Man Not Yet Become Himself, John Bridgens Had Two Things Besides Indecision That Kept Him From Self-destruction - Books And A Sense Of Irony.

If Our God's Work Is To Be Done In Our Time, We Must Do It Ourselves.

You've Probably Heard About The Theory Of Steam-engine Time - That Even After The Steam Engine Had Been Invented, It Had To Wait Until People Were Ready To Make Use Of It. The Same Thing Happens In Literary Circles. The Truth Is, I'm Not Terribly Interested In Victorian Times; I'm Interested In Victorian Writers. I'm Interested In Most Eras Of History, But Not The Victorian Era Especially. I Was Interested In The John Franklin Expedition. I Was Interested In These Last Five Weird Years Of Dickens' Life. And I Just Have To Take The Age That Comes With All That When I Write About It.

There Is A Certain Solipsism To Serious Illness Which Claims All Of One's Attention As Certainly As An Astronomical Black Hole Seizes Anything Unlucky Enough To Fall Within Its Critical Radius.