Respect And Fear Are Two Different Things.

I Suspected That There Were Things He Knew That I Had Been Waiting All My Life To Learn.

We Sort Of Read Two Or Three Big Newspapers But We Don't Get The Flavor Of The Local Events, The Local News As Much.

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

Another Thing I Learned Is That Novels, Even Those From Apparently Distant Times And Places, Remain Current And Enlightening, And Also Comforting.

'ape House' Is An Ambitious Novel In Several Ways, For Which It Is To Be Admired, And It Is Certainly An Easy Read, But Because Gruen Is Not Quite Prepared For The Philosophical Implications Of Her Subject, It Is Not As Deeply Involving Emotionally Or As Interesting Thematically As It Could Be.