The other characters. War changed me, but I came though that, I can come through this. And you can, until. The other character. The one that never went to war. The one that is always at war. Coyotes never hate. The best hunter never hunts.

Rucker disappoints… has not grown beyond his earliest work. Perhaps he is a victim, an example of the Tenure Trap. Professors stay at the level of their students, so that even after 30 years of schooling they are no further than their current class. The same class thirty times is the same class wasted.