@Gerl 25 December 2020 more from that month

Writing and reading diminish our loneliness. You deepen and enlarge our life sense: you nurture the soul. When writers make us revel in their prose and truths and even laugh about us or about life, we have re-established our boom. Instead of being constantly squashed by the absurdity of life, we are shot at dancing with, or at least clapping with. In a horrible storm at sea, it's like singing on a boat. You can't stop the hurricane, but singing can change people's hearts and spirits on that boat.