When you make a living solving other people's problems... It's good to be aware of your own. In the next ten seconds several facts presented themselves to me: That Richard has already formed the same ambition as I had; That, with his academic prowess and a family who did not so much support him as physically heave him into useful niches, he would have a better chance of fulfilling it; That, unless I could defy precedent and probability, I would find myself for ever half a lap behind. arranging their histories like the index entries in a biography, the sequences of cause and effect that have...