Book VI: Depression
Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies?
And I said, this is my infirmity:
~ Psalm 77, 7-10a
The King James Bible, 1611
What does it take to convince a high school English teacher to up-end his safe, comfortable life teaching in a small, Midwestern community, to toss reality into the air, and to slam all his chips onto the Table of Life, betting his future on a Hollywood dream? Did I long that much to be a Hollywood screenwriter and director?
Or did I suddenly remember the words of my old mentor in London? “You’re a pompous ass. You need to be dropped into a major city. You need to learn how to survive on your own, not depend on your …
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