Our comforting myth

Have you ever read a right excellent phrase and, instead of writing it down, determined to remember it, only to forget it the next day? Yes, well …

Ah, yes, now it comes to me. The phrase is: “a man of many doors.” What do you make of it?

Great writing cannot carry a bad story, unless all you’re after is florid or impressive language.

Man’s nature desires acceptance, approval, and — yes, we must use the word here — love. So rarely he discovers it.

Books are made to stand vertically on the shelf, except for very large ones, and not packed in too tightly. People, too.

An original verse: How dear to us our comforting myth! / On him who spurns it, our fiercest wrath!

A Bible verse: “When I worried about many things, your assuring words soothed my soul” Psa 94.19 GW.