On cowardice and courage ...
"The truth that many people never understand, until it is too late, is that the more that you try to avoid suffering, the more you suffer, because smaller and more insignificant things begin to torture you in proportion to your fear of being hurt."
Thomas Merton, 1915-1968, Trappist monk and writer
"A coward dies a thousand deaths; the brave die but once."
William Shakespeare, 1564-1616, poet and playwrite
One forces the reader to think; to construct meaning.
The other makes the assumption that his readers are not smart enough to do so.
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