An epidemic of epigrams

"I offer this collection of epigrams at one per page, not because I think they are especially important or equal in value but to encourage readers to browse at their leisure. In short, this is not a book intended to be read from beginning to end like a novel but rather sampled from time to time. I have also chosen to present them randomly, not chronologically as I wrote them or thematic, or arranged by the categories I have outlined in this Foreword. Through the unpredictability of the random, IU hope to encourage readers constantly to shift mental gears" --