Like Most Of The Educated,

Gossip. The More You Talk About Why People Do Things, The More Ideas You Have About How The World Works.

Novelists Never Have To Footnote.

Why Are We Reading A Shakespeare Play Or 'huckleberry Finn?' Well, Because These Works Are Great, But They Also Tell Us Something About The Times In Which They Were Created. Unfortunately, Previous Eras And Dead Authors Often Used Language Or Accepted As Normal Sentiments That We Now Find Unacceptable.

One Of The Things That Ivar Knew About Mrs. Walker Was That She Would Only Tell Him What She Knew If He Asked The Right Question, So He Spent A Portion Of His Time Meditating Over What He Might Ask Mrs. Walker And How He Might Phrase The Question.

Like Most Of The Educated, I Do Harbor A Fondness For The Sins Of My Ignorant Past.