There Can Never Be Such A Thing

In The Traditional Urban Novel, There Is Only Survival Or Not. The Suburban Idea, The Conformist Idea, That Agony Can Be Seen To And Cured By Doctors Or Psychoanalysis Or Self-knowledge Is Nowhere To Be Found In The City. Talking Is A Way Of Life, But It Is Not A Cure. Same With Religion.

You Cannot Be An Egomaniac On The Horse. If You Lose Your Temper And Start Beating Him, Either You Will Destroy Him, Or He Will Destroy You. As Soon As You Start Riding Horses Seriously, You're Being Disciplined On A Daily Basis About How Ignorant You Are And What There Is Left For You To Learn.

Giving His Lecture For The Third Time Freed Dr. Lionel Gift From Paying Much Attention To It. He Had A Naturally Expressive Style Of Delivery, Hones Over The Years In Elementary-econ Lecture Halls. He Knew, Without Even Thinking, To Address The Middle Rows Of The Hall, But To Occasionally "shoot" The Listeners In The Back Corners. He Knew How To Make Eye Contact And Solicit The Attention Of Those Who Were Thinking Of Other Things.

When A Novel Has 200,000 Words, Then It Is Possible For The Reader To Experience 200,000 Delights, And To Turn Back To The First Page Of The Book And Experience Them All Over Again, Perhaps More Intensely.

Ignorance Is A Self-generating State Of Mind; One Of Its Characteristics Is That It Doesn't Recognize Itself As Ignorance.