The secret life of higher learning, aside from knowing where to scalpelize or where to research precedent, or how to build an atom bomb, blesses daily with the power tools of utilizing and recognizing every geometric angle, every ion, all the decibels, textures and scents. But not everyone knows this secret, and some in youth are unwilling to explore with more than cursory perception, and in age it threatens with confusion over a past not learned as new but that was accepted and must be rewritten under different rules. For age has seen the history and made decisions not viewed the same as written in a text, and stubborn with the sight rather than for sheer argument, they cling and conflict themselves till madness looms as just another answer.
But then again, the safer road where heaven is the only answer remains as great temptation to us all.
The Lost Children: A Charity Anthology