"What I've written has been sustained," he observes, "by the belief that literary life and work are inseparable and mutually illuminating".
Inasmuch as disturbance is related to uncertainty, it's hardly surprising that observing something causes it to change, since one observes by interacting.
Osborne observes: "By the end of a drama, you want to know human nature and some aspects of yourself a little better.
Few ask at the outset, as Chomsky observes, by what moral or legal right does the US bomb, invade or occupy another country, and so many.
Griswold observes, by way of a small caveat, that the churches of Akinola and Orombi are still relatively young in the faith, just a century or so removed from the missionary stage, their zeal uncomplicated by nuance.
As Ms Kellerman observes, "by ordering his own policy review, a review that somehow (guess how) was leaked to the press, McChrystal boxed in Obama, in effect obliging him to ramp up the war effort, including (among other things) sending 30,000 additional troops into battle".
Edward Hoagland observes, "By not expecting much, most of us age with considerable contentment — I've been noticing lately at senior-center lunches and church suppers — and even die with a bit of a smile, as I remember was often the case during a year I worked in a morgue in my twenties".
"In the end, all drama is about family," one of the Burnabys observes; by which is meant a family that is emblematic of many families, as all works of literature attempt to render in language the musical cadences and speech-patterns that most powerfully evoke the story.
For those on the look-out for the first inklings of a renewal of Labour's purpose and thinking, the party's leadership campaign has been hindered, as Tony Wright observes, by a reluctance to accept the scale and nature of the defeat in May.
As Jamelle Bouie of the American Prospect observes: "By criticizing Wall Street--and placing some blame for the crisis on their shoulders--Obama is diminishing the psychic rewards of working in the financial sector.
