“Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.”
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From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.
I was interested by the idea that artists working in a totalitarian dictatorship or tsarist autocracy are secretly and slightly shamefully envied by artists who work in freedom. They have the gratification of intense interest: the authorities want to put them in jail, while there are younger readers for whom what they write is pure oxygen.
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.
I think that the present is worth attention, one shouldn't sacrifice it to future conceptions of, of this future or that future.
