I do know that there are some things, though, that occur without a direct line of antecedents.

“Things had a way of working out for the best, when you let them run their cours…”

“And I think, not for the first time, that what is immoral is not always wrong.”

“This time of night, the sky was flung wide open, stars spread like a story acro…”

“You can tell yourself that you would be willing to lose everything you have in …”