Giving Papa time to think, as Arty put it, was like pumping random rounds into a fireworks factory. The odds favored dramatic results.

This idea that males are physically aggressive and females are not has distinct drawbacks for both sexes.

But I think everybody should write. I think those people with stories who don't write should be stomped on.

Were also far enough from the publishing power that we have no access to the politics of publishing, although there are interpersonal politics, of course.

He must love me, i thought, amazed. A faint whiff of nausea hit me at seeing pain as proof of love, but it seemed true. Unavoidable.

Asked why they wanted to fight, the young women said they enjoyed it, just as some men and boys do.

There are the those whose own vulgar normality is so apparent and stultifying that they strive to escape it. They affect flamboyant behaviour and claim originality according to the fashionable eccentricities of their time. They claim brains or talent or indifference to mores in desperate attempts to deny their own mediocrity.