[memory] Visits When It Is Hungry, Not

Combine A Left-leaning Upbringing With A Family With Direct Experience Of The Holocaust And Someone With Aspirations To Write And I Guess, Sooner Or Later, That Person Will Have A Stab At Writing Something About The Holocaust.

Why Did I Start With Them? Why Do Any Of Us Choose One Company Over Another As An Employer? The Money? At The Beginning They All Offer More Or Less The Same And No One Know How It Will Go After That. I Guess It Is Often Not So Much Your Prospects At A Particular Firm, Because These Are Essentially Unknowable, But Whether People Will Think You Have Done Well To Get The Job There, That Determines You Choice. That Was Largely It In My Case. It Was Really The Prestige. They Gave Good Letterhead.

I Used To Be A Child. It Came Naturally To Me. I Was An Adult For A Time, Too. That Came Less Naturally.

There's The Ambiguity Of Human Relationships, For Instance. A Relationship Between Two People, Just Like A Sequence Of Words, Is Ambiguous If It Is Open To Different Interpretations. And If Two People Do Have Differing Views About Their Relationship - I Don't Just Mean About Its State, I Mean About Its Very Nature - Then That Difference Can Affect The Entire Course Of Their Lives.

You Don't Need To Be Seeing Someone To Be In Love With Her. You Can Have Lost Touch With Her, She Can Have Hurt You, Even Inexplicably. If You Ever Felt That You Really Knew Her And That It Was What You Knew That You Loved, And If You Remember What It Was You Once Knew, Why Is It So Crazy To Retain That Love Still?