Welcome...to Jurassic Park!

I Eventually Realized That Direct Experience Is The Most Valuable Experience I Can Have. Western Man Is So Surrounded By Ideas, So Bombarded With Opinions, Concepts, And Information Structures Of All Sorts, That It Becomes Difficult To Experience Anything Without The Intervening Filter Of These Structures.

Having Wallowed In A Delightful Orgy Of Anti-french Sentiment, Having Deplored And Applauded The Villains Themselves, Having Relished The Foibles Of Bankers, Railwaymen, Diplomats, And Police, The Public Was Now Ready To See Its Faith Restored In The Basic Soundness Of Banks, Railroads, Government, And Police.

Books Aren't Written - They're Rewritten. Including Your Own. It Is One Of The Hardest Things To Accept, Especially After The Seventh Rewrite Hasn't Quite Done It.

God Creates Dinosaurs, God Kills Dinosaurs, God Creates Man, Man Kills God, Man Brings Back Dinosaurs.

I Tended To Faint When I Saw Accident Victims In The Emergency Ward, During Surgery, Or While Drawing Blood.