If 'ecstasy' meant the sudden intrusion of the sacred into the ordinary, then it had just happened to me.
You live it forward, but understand it backward.
Students undergo a conversion in the third year of medical school - not pre-clinical to clinical, but pre-cynical to cynical.
In writing, as in medicine, there are no short cuts. You need stamina.
Ignorance was just as dynamic as knowledge, and it grew in the same proportion.
Geography is destiny.