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...find in some ways he's changed less than most people I know, and I mean that as a compliment," he says. "He's kept the boyish qualities that one likes, and he was prematurely wise when he was young...
...wise man? Who knoweth the interpretation of a thing? And did he do all the reading or is he just faking it? A man's wisdom maketh his face to shine, and the boldness of his face shall be changed, although usually not right in front of the professor...
...beheld the ways of wisdom, that a man cannot find out all the work that is done under the sun; though a wise man think to know it all, yet he shall not be able to find it; much better to specialize...
Wyatt has a writer's sensibility, but Humphreys was wise to make him a lawyer. The profession symbolizes convention, respectability and decorum. Were her protagonist a writer, expectedly musing at the beach, no one would bother with him. There would be no lovely Louise, former girlfriend and wife of his ex-partner, trying to mother him back to responsibility and solvency. There would be no Billie, the child-woman who, like the dog trainer in Anne Tyler's The Accidental Tourist, teaches new tricks...
Mike Lew is a counsellor who has written an excellent book titled Victims No Longer about male survivors of sexual abuse. This book compliments Ellen Bass' Courage to Heal, which is directed toward female survivors but has applications for male survivors as well. It would be wise for anyone dealing with sexual behavior to investigate both of these books...