As a child I was middle-aged and cautious compared to my impulsive father.
The madness of love can always be suspended--to cook dinner or catch a plane, for instance.
Comedy defends the commonplace; tragedy explodes it.
Profundity often goes past the issue to some deep but useless truth.
Scepticism is always a back road leading to some credo or other.
Beggars market their incapacity.