His memoir illustrates an important lesson for the rest of us and especially for other memoirists: You are not the most important character in your life story—it is the other people in your life who give it meaning and who make it interesting. His best characters are the people who touched his life, who abetted his schemes and who helped him through difficulties. That is a great lesson to be mindful of as we carry on our lives, but it is also a powerful tool for memoirists figuring out how to make their stories more engaging.
People have been in here twenty years, and they still blame the cops who caught them, the DA who prosecuted them, the judge who sentenced them and the system that imprisoned them. They still haven’t come to terms with themselves and what they did. They have to get angry at themselves, understand how they created their own fate and get through that.
The medieval Irish not only saved civilization, they were the first to introduce STEM education into a local school system.
The liberal media has recently uncovered the CIA Style Manual, and we are, frankly, in the gravest danger. A matter of national security—the threat of the serial comma—must end. Also known as the Oxford comma, this insidious misleader—like the Cambridge Five—can serve no good role influencing Agency dispatches. Although the Company prudently favors semi-colons, it recklessly “endorses” the serial comma, and this will inevitably result in additional faulty intelligence.
