Naturalism

" [Naturalists] took the novel out of the drawing rooms and the bedrooms, away from the generals in their tents to the soldiers in the ditches, to city slums, coal mines, brothers, lifeboats -- wherever life was elemental. That was where you could study unvarnished human behavior.."

Oh, like Thanksgiving dinner tables across the United States? Goodness knows how competition over that last piece of pie can rip the veneer of civilized behavior off the nicest people . . . Hee!

I am a lucky person, and I am grateful for the many wonderful things in my life. I wish everyone a happy day.

( Naturalism )