If you think with your emotions, slight glandular changes are sufficient to revise your entire outlook. - Brian Aldiss

The stone in my hand hides
A secret natural history:
Climates and times unknown,
A river unseen.

I'm lucky that SFWA has such a short memory. I was always the Young Turk, the gadfly. Part of the New Wave, although I didn't fit in there either! I spent years, and two histories, putting the so-called Old Guard in their place, and now I'm one of them!

You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.