An Ugly Innocence June 24, 2008

…[I]f they are worse in many ways than we are, these people . . . are better in others, blessed with an ugly innocence.
— Gene Wolfe, Claw of the Conciliator, Chapter VI: Blue Light.
Staying innocent is something all too often exalted among people. The blessing of staying innocent is the gift of having a [...]

When We Become Our Own Worst Insticts June 6, 2008

There are moments when we all become someone else. Something other than what we are. It takes only a moment. But we spend the rest of our lives looking back at that moment in shame. For one instant, out of a lifetime of service, he became his own worst instincts. — Delenn, “Objects at Rest” [...]