Sooner Or Later Something Seems To Call

Each Of Us Needs An Adequate Biography: How Do I Put Together Into A Coherent Image The Pieces Of My Life? How Do I Find The Basic Plot Of My Story?

Of Course, A Culture As Manically And Massively Materialistic As Ours Creates Materialistic Behavior In Its People, Especially In Those People Who've Been Subjected To Nothing But The Destruction Of Imagination That This Culture Calls Education, The Destruction Of Autonomy It Calls Work, And The Destruction Of Activity It Calls Entertainment.

So When You Consider The Archetypal, Historical, And Cultural Background Of Whatever You Do, It Gives You A Sense That Your Occupation Can Be A Calling And Not Just A Job.

Food Is So Fundamental, More So Than Sexuality, Aggression, Or Learning, That It Is Astounding To Realize The Neglect Of Food And Eating In Depth Psychology.

Writing Books For Me Is Anyway Much Like A Military Campaign. I Confess To Fighting My Way Through With Military Metaphors. There Is A Strategy, An Overall Concept, And There Are Tactics Along The Way…tradition Would Say I Was A 'child Of Mars.'