I think the pattern of my essays is, A funny thing happened to me on my way through Finnegans Wake.
“There's no way to approach anything in an objective way. We're completely subjective; our view of the world is completely controlled by who we are as human beings, as men or women, by our age, our history, our profession, by the state of the world.”
“Father, in spite of all this spending of money in learning Latin, I will be a painter.”