This book from start to finish is a study in the passing of time. And it is the passing of the writer in the course of time. We who remain as readers--you and I--imagine another time and another place. We then move on to what is to come next. An artifact of a lived experience, this is a document of a life lived in the course of a decade. The writing--the process of writing--was part of the living. In some cases, the writing was the living,...