We Are Defined By The Company We Keep
"And How Well We Keep It" I like to read. I have ever since I learned how to read. Very early in my reading "career" I fell in love with, among many genres, Science Fiction. I still read a lot of Sci-Fi. There was one book that I read a long time ago, and shall soon reread I think, and very early on the two protagonists meet. And after they meet and separate the "Hero" is discussing a matter involving some things with another person. And, almost as an aside says the following about the other protagonist: "I admit I hadn't any notion of the part that W****** played in the matter - he's apparently an absolute devil." Now the person he was talking to was rather rattled by this and basically asked who had told him such a thing. And the following dialog took place: "No one. It's obvious isn't it?" "Not to ninety nine percent of the civilized worlds it isn't. What made it so obvious to you?" "Certainly any m...