He Didn't Want Her; He Wanted Me.

In 1930s Mysteries, All Sorts Of Motives Were Credible Which Aren't Credible Today, Especially Motives Of Preventing Guilty Sexual Secrets From Coming Out. Nowadays, People Sell Their Guilty Sexual Secrets.

Daniel Supposed He Had A Secret Life. Most People Did; It Was Hardly Possible To Live Without One.

Open Your Mind To New Experiences, Particularly To The Study Of Other ­people. Nothing That Happens To A Writer – However Happy, However Tragic – Is Ever Wasted.

A Picnic May Well Be A Metaphor For Life. The Essentials For Happiness Are The Right Company, Moderate If Sanguine Expectations And A Reasonable Standard Of Physical Sustenance And Comfort, The Whole Being Bedeviled By The Belief That There Is Always Something Better To Be Had If Only One Presses On.

Of The Four Billion Life Forms Which Have Existed On This Planet, Three Billion, Nine Hundred And Sixty Million Are Now Extinct. We Don't Know Why. Some By Wanton Extinction, Some Through Natural Catastrophe, Some Destroyed By Meteorites And Asteroids. In The Light Of These Mass Extinctions It Really Does Seem Unreasonable To Suppose That Homo Sapiens Should Be Exempt. Our Species Will Have Been One Of The Shortest-lived Of All, A Mere Blink, You May Say, In The Eye Of Time.