I want very much to set down my thoughts and my experiences of life. Iwant to do so now that I have come to middle age and now that myattitudes are all defined and my personal drama worked out I feel thatthe toil of writing and reconsideration may help to clear and fix manythings that remain a little uncertain in my thoughts because they havenever been fully stated, and I want to discover any lurkinginconsistencies and unsuspected gaps. And I have a story. I have livedthrough things that have searched me. I want to tell that story as wellas I can while I am still a clear-headed and active man, and wh