Chapter Three

Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

::Henry David Thoreau::

Chapter Two

"Nobody gets what they want. Never again are you the same. The longing is to be pure. What you get is to be changed." ~Jorie Graham

Chapter One

This world is not my home . . . this is. But I'll drop by once in a while.