To call this elegant metropolis "The City of the Ape" does it a considerable disservice, but it is impossible to avoid. Every time we speak of something being as old as the Ape, we reaffirm the city's ... [+]
A Light in the Storm
Pa had always had a lot of respect for Sam's grandmother. That must have been at least partly to do with what people in the village used to say about her. Pa used to say that civilization took the best part of men away from them. And that the people in the village, who lived in civilization, had built a sort of altar at which they worshipped and which corrupted them a little more every day. "They throw into the shadows everything they don't understand," was another thing Pa used to say, "and the more they think they know, the less they understand whatever it might be." For Pa, a man had no nee