Terrible Sanity

"Terrible Sanity is wondrous sanity. Pickering''s essays are acetaminophen for hippish days. "Life doesn''t have a neat beginning and a tidy end," Roger, a character in V. S. Naipaul''s Half a Life, says. "Life is always going on." In this collection, Pickering depicts the joy and sadness of life''s going on. He observes that great knowledge often brings small pleasure while the small knowledge th...