Scholars dream of finding small facts pregnant with great progeny.
If modesty disappeared, so would exhibitionism.
Innovation violates tradition--attacks it in public and steals from it in private.
Spirituality now wanders from sex to drugs to art to revolution to violence--whatever seems to promise deliverance from the quotidian.
The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.
Anyone who feels like a fool has made a good beginning.