I think it is best to write plainly about what brought me to write this book. This book started, in a way, when, as a small boy, I possessed an endlessly inquisitive mind. I wondered about everything. Nearly every older person I knew was an interesting, perhaps overeducated professor or doctor of some kind. My mouth produced a never ending stream of questions. After high school I attended the university. I was almost as bored as I had been in grade school, so I left more...
