It is now his wife who carries the guilt, a mother who cries in the shower about her fatherless children and about their terrible, completely logical fears when they see her light up, a woman who threw out every ashtray when her husband died.
"It helps you conquer your fears or honors your logical fears". The stories teach a simple truth about the night, Bruchac says.
And while scientists don't believe that neonicotinoids have the same effect on butterflies as they do on bumblebees, it seems logical to fear that drenching the land in chemicals means there will be fewer butterflies to delight our souls, as the 17th century naturalist John Ray put it, and "brighten the countryside like so many golden jewels".
For the rest of that night my mind threw every logical-sounding, fear-based thought in the book about why I should prep myself to get out the door, including the final cherry on top of not only rolling over in bed in the morning and looking at my partner and feeling nothing, but even hearing, "I hate you" roll through my mind.
The logical extension of fear-based division and extreme competitiveness is violence in all its forms, from the violence that we have seen play out, too often, over much of modern Wall Street, to the violence we see in our divided communities, to the violence of war.
NWFP has always been so rebellious that no Pakistani government has dared to call it by its logical name, Pushtunistan, for fear of rallying the Pushtun tribesmen who live there.
While it's important to make logical choices, don't fear failure.
When that many people are angry, the logical next step is fear.
This, like much of what worries Greeks, is unprovable - but his fears were logical.
Suicide is not a logical response to debt, but fear is.
