I Try To Take Large, General Questions

When I Was A Small Kid, I Grew Up In The Newspapers.

The Fact Is That Everybody Around A College Basketball Game - The Coaches, The Announcers, Even The Referees At A Lower Level - Calculates When The Game Is Really Over. They Calculate It With Intuition And Guesswork.

All Societies Have These Cases. There Are Many, Many Crime Cases That Remain Famous From The Times Of The Romans. The Bible Is Full Of Crime Stories. You Can Almost Flip To A Page. Joseph Being Sold Into Slavery By His Brothers Is A Crime Story. The Bible Is Full Of Crime Stories.

The Human Race Has Been In A Long Struggle To Eliminate Murder. And We Will Succeed.

Because Crime Stories Reveal An Aspect Of Our Personality That Everybody Has, But Which We Normally Keep Very Deeply Hidden. We Like To Talk About The Good Sides Of Ourselves. We Don't Like To Talk About Our Hatreds, Our Distrusts Of One Another, Our Secrets, But Crime Stories Drag Those Things To The Surface And Consequently They Fascinate People And Always Have Throughout All History.