The book's opening poem, "Doll's House", is an incisive exploration of the fragility of our familial lives, moving from the haunting description of "a table set with tiny plates" to gentle moral instruction: "Be brave.
So that, I'd say, is at least one good reason to read books - it can tilt the world in some tiny political, social or moral way, and, God knows, we certainly need some tilting.
Bresson captures the moral weight of tiny gestures in brisk, precise images, and conveys the cosmic evil of daily life through one of the all-time great soundtracks, full of the rustle of bills and the clink of change, the click of a cash register and the snap of locks.
But scientists, politicians and bioethicists have been grappling for years with the biological and moral subtleties encapsulated by that tiny dot of tissue.
In "Aesop's Fables: A Pop-Up Book of Classic Tales," illustrated by Chris Beatrice and Bruce Whatley, the morals appear in fine print on tiny white banners almost lost in the wow effects wrought by bursts of color on paper foldouts.
To take two tiny examples: Theodore Roosevelt described Tolstoy as "a sexual and moral pervert".
LH Or – *pauses to allow tiny bit of sick to settle back in stomach* – "moral fibres".
The moral here is don't lose the tiny remote.
He spends one tiny paragraph on Lamonica's defense, mostly reprinting the moral outrage of prosecutors.
By the year's end, they would be toasting his presidency.A moral compassYet Czechoslovakia's dissident movement was still tiny and amateurish, way behind Poland's Solidarity in muscle, or Hungary's activists in sophistication.
