I Think That The Cold War Was

Candy Is My Fuel. Ice Cream, Too.

Twenty-five, He Was. Twenty-five Tomorrow. Some Years The Snow Had Melted For His Birthday, But Not This Year, And So It Had Been A Long Winter Full Of Cows.

I Had Spent Years Thinking About One Thing While I Was Doing Another. I Had, In Fact, Prided Myself On Being Able To Do Two Things At Once.

The Novel As A Form Is Usually Seen To Be Moral If Its Readers Consider Freedom, Individuality, Democracy, Privacy, Social Connection, Tolerance And Hope To Be Morally Good, But It Is Not Considered Moral If The Highest Values Of A Society Are Adherence To Rules And Traditional Mores, The Maintenance Of Hierarchical Relationships, And Absolute Ideas Of Right And Wrong. Any Society Based On The Latter Will Find Novels Inherently Immoral And Subversive.

My Characters Never Die Screaming In Rage. They Attempt To Pull Themselves Back Together And Go On. And That's Basically A Conservative View Of Life.