Any Visitor To An Historic Country Town

What Was So Terrible About Grief Was Not Grief Itself, But That One Got Over It.

The World Is Full Of People Who Have Lost Faith: Politicians Who Have Lost Faith In Politics, Social Workers Who Have Lost Faith In Social Work, Schoolteachers Who Have Lost Faith In Teaching And, For All I Know, Policemen Who Have Lost Faith In Policing And Poets Who Have Lost Faith In Poetry. It's A Condition Of Faith That It Gets Lost From Time To Time, Or At Least Mislaid.

A Letter Is Paradoxically The Most Revealing And The Most Deceptive Of Confessional Revelations. We All Have Our Inconsistencies, Prejudices, Irrationalities Which, Although Strongly Felt At The Time, May Be Transitory. A Letter Captures The Mood Of The Moment. The Transitory Becomes Immutably Fixed, Part Of The Evidence For The Prosecution Or The Defence.

Charm Is Always Genuine; It May Be Superficial But It Isn't False.

Absolute Nakedness Was Intrusive, Confusing To The Senses. Paradoxically, It Both Revealed And Diminished Identity.