Reviews Are Destructive By Their Very Nature.

A Dog That Has Rabies Probably Will Do Things It Wouldn't Do If It Didn't Have Rabies. But That Doesn't Change The Fact That It Has Rabies.

As An Actor There Are No Drawbacks.

All You Have Is The Writer's Imagination. You Have A Very Limited Time To Take This Imaginary Person And Bring The Details Of Their Life, As You Perceive Them, To Life. You Attempt To Do To That As Fully And As Vibrantly As You Can. It's Depressing To Read How Much You've Failed. And It's Not Even Particularly Instructive Or Necessary To Read How You Succeeded Because In The End Don't You Have To Judge That?

And May The Best Of You - For It Will Only Be The Best Of You, And Even Then Only In The Rarest And Briefest Moments - Succeed In Framing That Most Basic Of Questions, 'how Do We Live?'

And If You Say A Word About This Over The Radio, The Next Wings You See Will Belong To The Flies Buzzing Over Your Rotting Corpse.