By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.

For no matter the shadows of an age, the picture of a young couple in love, we are told, speaks most luminously of the future, as the span of that passion makes us believe we can overleap any walls, obliterate whatever obstacles.

It is 'where we are' that should make all the difference, whether we believe we belong there or not.

For at some point, each of us will be asked to embody what we feel and know.

Do not discount the psychic warmth of the hive.

By definition it uses and plays and delights in time. It delights in the interlacing of chronologies and the consequences of that interlacing. And those have personal and psychological expressions in a character. Aside from other issues of writing, psychological characterization is what narrative can do best.

I think that's great - I just try not to be one of those people. I find the more I think about it, the less free I feel when I write and when I work.