of dealing with wit, with aphoristic style. But my 
father decided early on that he would try as much 
as he could to write and present his things, his 
ideas, in aphoristic style. Because aphorisms as 
Bacon said, are incomplete. It’s not the spelled-out 
essay, this is something highly compressed. It’s a 
poetic form. And it calls for a lot of participation 
on the part of the person regarding it or thinking 
about it. You have to chew it over and mull it over 
and work with it for a while before you understand 
it fully. A good aphorism should keep you busy for 
about a week. Sort of on the back burner kicking it 
around and playing with it and exploring it, taking 
it apart to see what you can get out of it and so