The Chosen

To Dr Israel Charny, Mrs Jonas Greenfield, Rabbi Raphael Posner, and Dr Aaron Rosen, all of whom helped with the research, I offer my gratitude.

C. P.

When a trout rising to a fly gets hooked on a line and finds himself unable to swim about freely, he begins with a fight which results in struggles and splashes and sometimes an escape. Often, of course, the situation is too tough for him.

In the same way the human being struggles with his environment and with the hooks that catch him. Sometimes he masters his difficulties; sometimes they are too much for him: His struggles are all that the world sees and it naturally misunderstands them. It is hard for a free fish to understand what is happening to a hooked one.

– Karl A. Menninger

True happiness Consists not in the multitude of friends, But in the worth and choice.

– Ben Jonson