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I Knew He Was Unreliable, But He Was Fun To Be With. He Was A Child’s Ideal Companion, Full Of Surprises And Happy Animal Energy. He Enjoyed Food And Drink. He Liked To Try New Things. He Brought Home Coconuts, Papayas, Mangoes, And Urged Them On Our Reluctant Conservative Selves. On Sundays He Liked To Discover New Places, Take Us On Endless Bus Or Trolley Rides To Some New Park Or Beach He Knew About. He Always Counseled Daring, In Whatever Situation, The Courage To Test The Unknown, An Instruction That Was Thematically In Opposition To My Mother’s.

History Is The Present. That's Why Every Generation Writes It Anew. But What Most People Think Of As History Is Its End Product, Myth.

The Philosophical Conservative Is Someone Willing To Pay The Price Of Other People S Suffering For His Principles.

It May Be That The Most Avid Readers Of New Fiction In America Today Are Film Producers, An Indication Of The Trouble Were In.

I Like Commas. I Detest Semi-colons — I Don’t Think They Belong In A Story. And I Gave Up Quotation Marks Long Ago. I Found I Didn’t Need Them, They Were Fly-specks On The Page.