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The Known Child I Wondered To What Extent People Remained The Same As They'd Been When Very Young; If One Peeled Back The Layers Of Living One Would Come To The Known Child.

Let An Idea Swim To The Surface Like A Fish In A Pool...let The Mind Drift To The Vision.

Emotion Is A Rotten Base For Politics.

Most People Think, When They're Young, That They're Going To The Top Of Their Chosen World, And That The Climb Up Is Only A Formality. Without That Faith, I Suppose, They Might Never Start. Somewhere On The Way They Lift Their Eyes To The Summit And Know They Aren't Going To Reach It; And Happiness Then Is Looking Down And Enjoying The View They've Got, Not Envying The One They Haven't.

Life Has A Way Of Kicking One Along Like A Football, Or So I've Found. Fate Had Never Dealt Me Personally A Particularly Easy Time, But That Was Ok, That Was Normal. Most People, It Seemed To Me, Took Their Turn To Be Football. Most Survived. Some Didn't.