What looks tragic might be comic on second consideration, and what is comic might bring tears in time.
Inaction counted as a choice.
In this world only the paranoid survive.
His blue eyes were seas where sorrow sailed.
There are days when it seems to me that in literature the most convincing depiction of the world in which we live is to be found in the phantasmagorical kingdom through which Lewis Carroll took Alice on a tour.
The most identifying trait of humanity is our abilty to be inhumane to one another.