If you type adeptly with 10 fingers, you’re typing faster than your mind is working. - James A. Michener

I can no longer take war or promotion or big income or a large house seriously. I reject empire and Vietnam and placing a man on the moon. I deny time payments and looking like the girl next door and church weddings and a great deal more. If you want to blame such rejection on grass, you can do so. I charge it to awakening.

Panic of 1873 had already cast its shadow across the money markets of New York and Chicago; prudent men were beginning to draw in their investments, but the men and women involved in this outlandish affair were so wealthy and so protected that the panic could not touch them.

On 24 October 1944 Planet Earth was following its orbit about the sun as it has obediently done for nearly five billion years.