As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend.
Nowadays, the process of growth and development almost never seems to manage to create this subtle balance between the importance of the individual parts, and the coherence of the environment as a whole. One or the other always dominates.
When I was a kid, I had this idea that I would have a beard when I got older. I thought it'd be nice to rub my chin.

