"I have been privileged to live in a queer time; I have witnessed the possibilities of both transcendence and horror. Beneath the m lange of comely and loathsome, I found a hope hidden in contemporary existence: one can set out on a quest, a search for the truth of the whole, the good of one's life. In spite of the stumbling, the errors, the moral lapses, indeed, because of the disarray, I came to see that only a teleological odyssey makes sense,...