The phone is off the hook

Wee must not therefore give our Confederates hope of pardon, either impetrable by words, or purchaseable by money

Our social and psychological sciences stand helpless before the terrible things done by human beings, but the warpedness and wrungness of the human will is something we cannot admit into “serious” conversation.

Wading upstream, it was obvious I would have to cast side-handed and under-handed, with an occasional bow-and-arrow shot.