Magic Words

There is really no end to the magic words available to savor and enjoy.

Tournier  GEMINI

Life is not a great big linen cupboard full of neat piles of spotless , well-ironed sheets, scented with lavender bags, but a heap of dirty mattresses on which men and women have come into the world, where they have fornicated and slept, where they have suffered and died—and that it is well that it should be so. .. . to be alive is to be involved, to have a wife who has her periods and who deceives you, children who get whooping cough, daughters who run away from home, sons who defy you, heirs who watch you die.