Acknowledgements
Special thanks to Mark Budz, Marina Fitch, Leslie Lauderdale, and Kathy Dyer for their detailed comments and suggestions to improve this book. Lillie Mitchell for her transcribing skills, Dr. Henry Stratman for medical and biological advice, Betsy Mitchell for her whizbang editing expertise, Wayne Chang for keeping the trains running on time, and Rebecca Moesta Anderson for her love and support during the writing of my most ambitious novel to date.
“Our conscience is not the vessel of eternal verities. It grows with our social life, and a new social condition means a radical change in conscience.”
—Walter Lippmann
“The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test reality we must see it on the tight-rope. When the Verities become acrobats we can judge them.”
—Oscar Wilde