Status Updates From Yul: The Man Who Would Be K...

So far, even better than Ingrid Bergman's bio. It reminds me of when I played Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon with my best friend as a teenager.

'But strange as you were, I belonged to that strangeness. In some very immediate way I was a part of that exotic background, just as it was part of me, and so I acquainted myself with my heritage the best I could, through the sound of all its languages--gypsy songs, Chinese proverbs, Russian names, French poetry, British vowels. But most of all, it was the songs of the Tziganes, which you sang at every party.'

Alas, Father, though you wished it so, there is no perfect arithmetic of the spirit, no zero-sum morality. Our transgressions cannnot be ignored because of the magnitude of our virtues, and moral complexities cannot be willed into simplicities, even by the tough gunslinger. In the sloppy, imperfect domain of human affairs, relativism prevails and paradoxes abound...'Tis a puzzlement.