At the breakfast table we are footnoting everything that we read. We don't recognise it as such but we encounter an article in the newspaper and then suddenly we recall that a friend had a certain comment on that particular story, a certain bit of news that we saw on the television applies to that and we immediately assemble an idea of a story.

Anger is one way to respond to fear. I say one way because responses are categorically multiple.

I'm a big believer in big books, and that doesn't necessarily mean long books.

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