Wisdom Has Lost Repute Because

Abyss-mongering Makes Professors And Poets Feel Daring.

Spirituality Now Wanders From Sex To Drugs To Art To Revolution To Violence--whatever Seems To Promise Deliverance From The Quotidian.

Sulking Is Silent Because Speaking Would Reveal Its Folly.

Sometimes The Only Way To Become Grounded Is To Hit Bottom.

Let's Have Some Good, Old-fashioned Literature, With A Virgin And A Moral.