A Story Is Told As Much By

Is It A Coincidence That Stories From The Private Life Became More Popular Just As The Grand Hope For Public Redemption Through Revolution Was Beginning To Sour? I Witnessed A Similar Shift In Taste In My Own Time. In The 1960s, While A Hopeful Vision Of A Just Society Arose Again, Countless Poems And Plays Concerning Politics And Public Life Were Written, Read, And Performed. But After The Hope Diminished And Public Life Seemed Less And Less Trustworthy, This Subject Was Less In Style.

... This Is The Paradox Of Vision: Sharp Perception Softens Our Existence In The World.

Far More Frightening Than The Thought Of Dying Was The Experience Of Erasure Already Occurring In My Life. My Fear Of Becoming Someone Who Did Not Count.

A Story Is Told As Much By Silence As By Speech.

In The System Of Chivalry, Men Protect Women Against Men. This Is Not Unlike The Protection Relationship Which [organized Crime] Established With Small Businesses In The Early Part Of This Century. Indeed, Chivalry Is An Age-old Protection Racket Which Depends For Its Existence On Rape.