It is a very mixed blessing to be brought back from the dead.

Armistice Day has become Veterans' Day. Armistice Day was sacred. Veterans' Day is not.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

If I wrote something that hadn't really happened, and I tried to sell it, I could go to jail. That's fraud!

It was a thunderingly beautiful experience-voluptuous, sexual, dangerous, and expensive as hell.

Our awareness is all that is alive and maybe sacred in any of us. Everything else about us is dead machinery.

Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors.