Gut it is will move us from the gutter. . . to the rebirth of real men.
However well you know the French language you've learnt it the wrong way, not as a native speaker would. That's my problem as well.
Most New Zealanders want to travel overseas. We're a great travelling nation. It's hard to imagine simply not moving from here, especially as time went on and became cheaper and easier. When I first travelled it was four and a half weeks by sea each way.
My literary criticism has become less specifically academic. I was really writing literary history in The New Poetic, but my general practice of writing literary criticism is pretty much what it always has been. And there has always been a strong connection between being a writer - I feel as though I know what it feels like inside and I can say I've experienced similar problems and solutions from the inside. And I think that's a great advantage as a critic, because you know what the writer is feeling.
Ignorance of God's prophetic outline, failure to know God's program for the Church, the nations, and Israel, is the cause of the overwhelming amount of error and misunderstanding of the events of the future.
Sitting around and waiting for your muse is not the best choice.
The history of mathematics is a history of horrendously difficult problems being solved by young people too ignorant to know that they were impossible.
There is a time and a place for things. Sometimes one needs to put a filter on oneself. That can be a good thing.