...the Larger World Lay Not Across Oceans

If A Man Lived Long Enough, His Past Would Always Overtake Him, No Matter How Fast He Ran Or How Morally He Tried To Live Subsequently. And How Men Dealt With That Law Ultimately Revealed Their True Natures.

...the Larger World Lay Not Across Oceans But Within The Human Mind And Heart.

He Always Reminded Us That Every Atom In Our Bodies Was Once Part Of A Distant Star That Had Exploded. He Talked About How Evolution Moves From Simplicity Toward Complexity, And How Human Intelligence Is The Highest Known Expression Of Evolution. I Remember Him Telling Me That A Frog's Brain Is Much More Complex Than A Star. He Saw Human Consciousness As The First Neuron Of The Universe Coming To Life And Awareness. A Spark In The Darkness, Waiting To Spread To Fire.

Her Touch Was As Knowing And Confident As Her Eyes, And As She Focused All Her Attention Upon Me, I Remembered That There Is Nothing So Thrilling As A Woman Of Words When She Decides That The Time For Words Is Past.

I Have Not Written A Perfect Sentence, In The Literary Sense. It's A Lot Easier To Throw A Perfect Pass Than To Write A Perfect Sentence, If That Sentence Is Meant To Perform More Than A Mechanical Function.