I Can Relate to This Decision Point
 

He knew that under the tall grass of his apparently untamed future the steel rails of fear and habit were already laid. What he suddenly couldn't bear was to act out the destiny prepared for him by his past - to slide obediently along those rails, contemplating bitterly all the routes he would rather have taken.
- Edward St. Aubyn

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Jump them tracks Non!

That's good writing right there, Nonsensical. I like the description of the triumph of spirit, and it sounds very much like one that many of us have experienced. I will read this guy's books. Thanks!

You're having a really good time, aren't you?