I said I *liked* being half-educated; you were so much more *surprised* at everything when you were ignorant.

Like the discovery of most things - love and religion especially - she maintained the child's arrogant wonder than no one had understood it before her and, even if they had, they could not embrace it as passionately as she.

Tea would arrive, the cakes squatting on cushions of cream, toast in a melting shawl of butter, cups agleam and a faint wisp of steam rising from the teapot shawl.

I said I _liked_ being half-educated; you were so much more _surprised_at everything when you were ignorant.

Nothing except possibly love and death are of importance, & even the importance of death is somewhat ephemeral, as no one has yet faxed back a reliable report.

Zoos should concentrate more on the preservation side of things.