But as I tried to tie in all of the various perspectives of what has been said and written about Jackson during these past two weeks, I was struck by four observations from watching Tuesday's memorial service which I will share with you just as thoughts for your measured reflection and hopefully calm deliberation.
Driven by the raging cultural warriors of the right, half out of its mind with fear of Nigel Farage, it no longer conserves but destroys with as little thought for the consequences as a brattish public schoolboy trashing a restaurant.
The older end of this clutch of novels (roughly, for 8-12) is often as thought-provoking as any written for older readers; full of brutality, complex relationships, revenge and irremediable injustice.
For decades, Catholics have looked to Chicago's archbishops as thought leaders for the American church.
Art, music and sci-fi can help to make such complicated matters easier to digest, and can function as thought experiments for what the future might hold.
As Mills sees it, art, music, and sci-fi can help to make the sort of abstract research Ellerbroek and his colleagues do easier to digest, and can function as thought experiments for what the future might hold.
His best pizzas — for instance the popeye, which weds crisp spinach and a molten mix of three cheeses — reflect as much thought for the toppings as for their bed.
"Where are all the newly freed chimpanzees going to go?" You might be asking as thoughts of Bedtime for Bonzo dance through your head.
A set of slightly more optimistic songs was compiled posthumously, in 1994, as "Another Thought," for Philip Glass's Point Music label.
Try to hold onto the thought for as long as you need to, until you're finished crying.
