Dedication

For uM, with appreciation and love...

"The nature of thinking is but"

-- Susan Sontag

"One learns to think through books; one learns to live through women"

-- Arthur Koestler

"How many times I wondered
It still comes out the same
No matter how you look at it or think of it
It's life and you just got to play the game"

-- Tony Joe White, 'Rainy Night in Georgia'

Stop breaking down,
Mama, please, stop breaking down.
Stuff is gonna bust your brains out, baby,
Gonna make you lose your mind.

-- Robert Johnson, 'Stop Breaking Down'

"You write because you must."

-- Henry Fairlie (to yours truly.)

"She writes like a dream."

-- An unknown poet