Writing Is An Incredibly Lonely Job.

You View The Gods As Entities Without," Montolio Tried To Explain. "you See Them As Physical Beings Trying To Control Our Actions For Their Own Ends, And Thus You, In Your Stubborn Independance, Reject Them. The Gods Are Within, I Say, Whether One Has Named His Own Or Not. You Have Followed Mielikki All Your Life, Drizzt. You Merely Never Had A Name To Put On Your Heart.

Do We Behave Out Of Fear Of Punishment, Or Out Of The Demands Of Our Heart? For Me, It Is The Latter, As I Would Hope Is True For All Adults, Thought I Know From Bitter Experience That Such Is Not Often The Case. To Act In A Manner Designed To Catapult You Into Heaven Would Seem Transparent To A God, Any God,for If Ones Heart Is Not In Allignment With The Creator Of That Heaven, Then... What Is The Point?

Because Everything Of Value That We Will Know In This Life Comes From Our Relationships With Those Around Us. Because There Is Nothing Material That Measures Against The Intangibles Of Love And Friendship.

And The Real Thing Can Kill You Whether You Believe In It Or Not.

To View Current Events As A Historian Is To Account For All Perspectives, Even Those Of Your Enemy