With six weeks' worth of recuperation time, you'll also be able to see any glaring holes in the plot or character development. And listen--if you spot a few of these big holes, you are forbidden to feel depressed about them or to beat up on yourself. Screw-ups happen to the best of us.

I wasn't a social drinker. I used to say that I didn't want to go to bars because they were full of assholes like me.

The quiet, singing voice of the rose. The song that promised all might be well, all might be well, that all manner of things might be well.

And then the world exploded.

Mrs. Cole was a perfect democrat. She hated all kids equally.

A change is as good as a rest.

I think it's relatively easy for people to accept something like telepathy or precognition or teleplasm because their willingness to believe doesn't cost them anything. It doesn't keep them awake nights. But the idea that the evil that men do lives after them is unsettling.