there i was in late middle age, cut loose in a thoroughly looted, bankrupt nation whose assets had been sold off to foreigners, a nation swamped by unchecked plagues and superstition and illiteracy and hypnotic tv, with virtually no health services for the poor. where to go? what to do?

“Because of the movies nobody will believe that it was babies who fought the war.”

“In the beginning, God created the heavens and the Earth," the long out-of-print…”

“No young person on earth is so excellent in all respects as to need no uncritic…”

“All moments, past, present, and future, always have existed, always will exist……”