If someone should complain, well, the problem lay not in the artist but in the fallen world.

But like Bruce said last night, we live in a fallen world.

The fact that this particular "best period" had seemed to some of its leading figures a fallen world is not allowed to affect the conclusion.

It's what we imagine to be perfection in a fallen world, the best of a bad situation.

Is a lifetime spent loving poems in a fallen world only a poor joke?

In a fallen world, the innocent suffer for the evil of others.

In this fallen world, I suspect we will never achieve perfection.

Some damage, given human nature and the fallen world we live in, is inevitable.

On another level, it is also about trying to live bravely and honestly in a fallen world.

Sadly, in this fallen world, that is not the case.