“I was losing my faith in books. I 'd begun to realize that there was
an unspoken prejudice among book-learned people,
a secret conviction they all seemed to share,
that life as we know it is an imperfect vision of reality,
and that only art, like a pair of reading glasses, can correct it.
The scholars and intellectuals I met at our dinner table
always seemed to hold a grudge against the world.”
– Caldwell and Thomason
The Rule of Four