“In the context of a man’s life, caring has a way of ordering his other values and activities around it. When this ordering is comprehensive, because of the inclusiveness of his carings, there is a basic stability in his life; he is ‘in place’ in the world, instead of being out of place, or merely […]
“Mr Bloom could easily picture his advent on this scene––the homecoming to the mariner’s roadside shieling after having diddled Davy Jones––a rainy night with a blind moon. Across the world for a wife.” ––Ulysses, by James Joyce, pg. 544
“It’s what happen at home that you try to protect, as best you can, for as long as you can.” ––Family Furnishings: Selected Stories, 1995-2014, by Alice Munro, pg. 303 “We childless ones, whether through bravery or cowardice, constitute a kind of existential vanguard, forced by our own choices to face the naked question […]