To Tracy Devine and Fletcher Buckley,
who keep each other delightfully sane in a
world gone mad. May your lives be full of good books,
good music, good friends, and-in light of your reckless
choice of vacation spots-only good bears.
Men do not differ much about what
things they will call evils;
they differ enormously about what evils
they will call excusable.
– G. K. CHESTERTON