If Two People Are In Love They

Man Is Different From Animals In That He Speculates, A High-risk Activity.

Animals Are Stylized Characters In A Kind Of Old Saga - Stylized Because Even The Most Acute Of Them Have Little Leeway As They Play Out Their Parts.

The Zest For Life Of Those Unusual Men And Women Who Make A Great Zealous Success Of Living Is Due More Often In Good Part To The Craftiness And Pertinacity With Which They Manage To Overlook The Misery Of Others. You Can Watch Them Watch Life Beat The Stuffing Out Of The Faces Of Their Friends And Acquaintances, Although They Themselves Seem To Outwit The Dense Delays Of Social Custom, The Tedious Tick-tock Of Bureaucratic Obfuscation, Accepting Loss And Age And Change And Disappointment Without Suffering Punctures In Their Stomach Lining.

Silence Is Exhilarating At First - As Noise Is - But There Is A Sweetness To Silence Outlasting Exhilaration, Akin To The Sweetness Of Listening And The Velvet Of Sleep.

A Writer's Work Is To Witness Things.