An incidental, and coincidental, collection of maxims and verse, both wise and comical, both commonsensical and abstruse, TUBAV is the result of years of writing, gathering, and experiencing life. Through times ranging from ecstatic exuberance to the heaviest despair, from the most carefree frivolity to the greatest intensity of effort and concentration, the author and editor has learned truths that only experience can teach, and only the furnace of hard lessons hardly grasped can instill. Within the few pages of this short compendium, depending on the views and tenets to which one adheres,...