Men of genius are often dull and inert in society as the blazing meteor when it descends to earth is only a stone.
Character matters leadership descends from character.
Joy descends gently upon us like the evening dew and does not patter down like a hailstorm.
The novelist teaches the reader to comprehend the world as a question. There is wisdom and tolerance in that attitude. In a world built on sacrosanct certainties the novel is dead.