Really - I'm OK." And he was, too, except that he could find no explanation for why the song had affected him grotesquely. He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.

“Despite our enormous brains and jam-packed libraries, we germ hotels cannot exp…”

“Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful trut…”

“I am a humanist, which means, in part, that I have tried to behave decently wit…”

“And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back... But she did look back, …”