Life. Consider the alternative.

The young today cannot follow narrative but they are alert to drama. They cannot bear description but they love landscape and action.

Only the vanquished remember history.

Only puny secrets need protection. Big discoveries are protected by public incredulity.

The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.

Human perception is literally incarnation.

Even mud gives the illusion of depth.