Sublime

Every one imagines that fear and anger, violence and desire, rage laced with the surprise capacity to forgive—character—is all that matters in the end.

“Where and

The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand: The protagonist’s audacious self-confidence and refusal to compromise his artistic vision—which was to say, himself—was a fascinating thing to survey.

In each case the writer was possessed of an insight that organized the writing, and in each case a persona had been created to serve the insight.

He turned Truman’s challenge around: the issue was not his inexperience but the older generation’s monopoly on power.

nebulous

the writer is a Mind Worm.

To be or to do—life is a constant roll call.

And our finest storytellers, the ones who transform and deepen our understanding of the world, are not just writers; they, too, are engaged in the adventure of ideas, to borrow a phrase from Alfred North Whitehead.