Vatican Ii Was A Force That Seized

People Travel Because It Teaches Them Things They Could Learn No Other Way.

Abstinence Is A Window Of Clarity Through Which One Can Better Find One's Work And One's Mate.

The Church Became Both More Accessible And Less Imposing. It Threw Itself Open To Risk.

Africa Has A Genious For Extremes, For The Beginning And The End. It Seems Simultaneously Connected To Some Memory Of Eden And To Some Foretaste Of Apocalypse. Nowhere Is Day More Vivid Or Night Darker. Nowhere Are Forests More Luxuriant. Nowhere Is There A Continent More Miserable

Would It Be Anything Like A Literary Disaster If Gore Vidal Were To Fall Silent? Easy. No. In Fact, There Is Something To Be Said For The Idea.