Only The Dying Man Can Tell How

It's Hard To Find A Book That's Safe To Write. Because One Always Goes To Dark Or Difficult Places.

In Theory Momentos Serve To Bring Back The Moment. In Fact They Serve Only To Make Clear How Inadequately I Appreciated The Moment When It Was Here. How Inadequately I Appreciated The Moment When It Was Here Is Something Else I Could Never Afford To See.

I Don't Have A Very Clear Idea Of Who The Characters Are Until They Start Talking.

We Are Imperfect Mortal Beings, Aware Of That Mortality Even As We Push It Away, Failed By Our Very Complication, So Wired That When We Mourn Our Losses We Also Mourn, For Better Or For Worse, Ourselves. As We Were. As We Are No Longer. As We Will One Day Not Be At All.

It Is Easy To See The Beginnings Of Things, And Harder To See The Ends.