Had I been brighter, had the gods been kinder, had the dice been hotter, this could have been a one-sentence story: Once upon a time Mickey Rooney lived happily ever after.
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
