Water....i'm Thirsty Not Dirty.

Call It My Little Gesture Toward Social Conscience, But I Like To Think I'm Teaching A Certain Number Of People To Read. Now That Sounds Pretentious!

The Notion That Any One Person Can Describe 'what Really Happened' Is An Absurdity. If Ten - Or A Hundred - People Witness An Event, There Will Be Ten - Or A Hundred - Different Versions Of What Took Place. What We See And How We Interpret It Depends Entirely Upon Our Individual Past Experience.

One Of The Less Attractive Aspects Of Human Nature Is Our Tendency To Hate The People We Haven't Treated Very Well; It's Much Easier Than Accepting Guilt. If We Can Convince Ourselves That The People We Betrayed Or Enslaved Were Subhuman Monsters In The First Place, Then Our Guilt Isn't Nearly So Black As We Secretly Know That It Is. Humans Are Very, Very Good At Shifting Blame And Avoiding Guilt.

I'd Really Like To Go With You, Agachak. Truly I Would...but I Just Can't." "i Don't Understand. Why Not?" "i'm Not Allowed To Leave Home. My Mother'd Punish Me Something Awful If I Did..." "but You're The King." "that Doesn't Change A Thing. I Still Do What Mother Says. She Tells Everybody That I'm The Best Boy Ever When It Comes To That." Agachak Resisted A Powerful Urge To Change This Half-wit Into A Toad Or Perhaps A Jellyfish.

I Wrote A Novel For My Degree, And I'm Very Happy I Didn't Submit That To A Publisher. I Sympathize With My Professors Who Had To Read It.