Completing A Book, It's A Little Like

Gerald Westerby, He Told Himself. You Were Present At Your Birth. You Were Present At Your Several Marriages And At Some Of Your Divorces, And You Will Certainly Be Present At Your Funeral. High Time, In Our Considered View, That You Were Present At Certain Other Crucial Moments In Your History.

Until We Have A Better Relationship Between Private Performance And The Public Truth, As Was Demonstrated With Watergate, We As The Public Are Absolutely Right To Remain Suspicious, Contemptuous Even, Of The Secrecy And The Misinformation Which Is The Digest Of Our News.

It's Death, That's What I'm Suffering From. The Systematic Encroachment Of The Big D.

There Is A Terrible Alienation In The Ordinary Man Between What He Is Being Told And What He Secretly Believes.

When A Problem Threatens To Engulf You, There's Nothing Like Irrelevant Detail To Keep Your Head Above Water.