The Problem With Death Is Absence

If The Sad Truth Be Known, Writers, Being The Misfits We Are, Probably Ought Not To Belong To Families In The First Place. We Simply Are Too Self-interested, Though We May Excuse The Flaw By Calling It 'focused.'

Get Rid Of The Guns. We Had The Second Amendment That Said You Have The Right To Bear Arms. I Haven't Seen The British Really Coming By My House Looking For It. And Besides, The Right To Bear Arms Is Not An Absolute Right Anyway, As New York's Sullivan Law Proves. We Talk About Ourselves As A Violent Society, And Some Of That Is Right And Some Of It Is Claptrap. But I Think If You Took Away The Guns, And I Mean Really Take Away The Guns, Not What Congress Is Doing Now, You Would See That Violent Society Diminish Considerably.

Death Is Too Much For Men To Bear, Whereas Women, Who Are Practiced In Bearing The Deaths Of Men Before Their Own And Who Are Alsopracticed In Bearing Life, Take Death Almost In Stride. They Go To Meet Death--that Is, They Attempt Suicide--twice As Often As Men, Though Men Are More "successful" Because They Use Surer Weapons, Like Guns.

Remote Control. Ingenious Contradiction Of Terms. Fits Like A Handshake. Aims Like A Gun.

For Those At Home, As Well As For Those In Battle, War Is Curiously Disabling. The Mere Realization That One's Country Is At War Poisons The Bloodstream, Creates An Incessant Mood Of Worry That Infiltrates Even The Most Casual Moments.