In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

I don't even like showing my stuff to publishers and editors much.

There are people who cannot forget, as neither do I, the lesson of the years of the Indochina War. Which was, first, that the state is capable of being a murderer. A mass murderer, and a conspirator and a liar.

For the people who ostensibly wish me well or are worried about my immortal soul, I say I take it kindly.

There's no Hell mentioned in the Old Testament. The punishment of the dead is not specified there. It's only with gentle Jesus, meek and mild, that the idea of eternal torture for minor transgressions is introduced.

Exceptional claims, require exceptional evidence.

Ordinary morality is innate in my view.