As a lawyer, as a private citizen, you see a lot of injustice. You see a lot of people who should have been punished and are not, and people who were punished wrongfully are not vindicated. Fiction is sort of a way to set the record straight, and let people at least believe that justice can be achie
Hence it happens that one takes words for concepts, and concepts for the things themselves.
Men who live valiantly and die nobly have a strength and a courage from the eternal Father.