However, Hack is determined to dish some dirt on the marriage, and to this end he pries about in Max's education, in a passage so horribly insinuating and devoid of evidence that it bears quoting at length.
His unscripted utterance on September 13 bears quoting at length: "Americans do not yet have the distance of history but our responsibility to history is already clear - to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil".
They don't bear quoting out of context (just imagine the most mind-parching piece of legalese you've ever tried to read), but they are used judiciously and they become curiously mesmerising.
"I didn't want to be a dancing bear," Time quoted him as saying in 1955.
To this day, if I am dissatisfied with my work or frustrated by it, the question I ask myself is "If this came out in print now, would I be able to bear hearing it quoted to me?" If the answer is no — and it often is — I go back to my desk and start again.
The Vancouver Sun, which first ran a story about the bear-killing in 2013, quoted one local resident who remembered the bear well, recalling how he would come within 160ft of humans in a search for food.
As quoted by Free the Bears, the organization that runs the Tat Kuang Si bear sanctuary near Luang Prabang that I had mentioned to Frida, "if left untreated, [Hydrocephalus] often leads to premature death".
But Benjamin's intention, however utopian, was that at some point his commentary would be withdrawn, leaving the quoted material to bear the full weight of the structure.
A plaque on the wall bears a quote by Gandhi, in Hindi, which reads, "I have entered politics to rescue politics from its bad reputation".
Quinn loves nothing more than to talk about race (his new book, The Coloring Book, bears a quote from Chris Rock calling him the "white Richard Pryor"), and his take on political correctness is far smarter and less whiny than most comics who are drawn to that subject.
