Especially for my father it was a great change. He used to be a socialist and even a member of the socialist party. But then he became an orthodox Jew. ↗
I don't want it to be all that self-conscious or artificial, but it really grows out of my having invented myself as a listener so that I could hear her voice. ↗
For four years, I listened to stories of intelligence failures, and it wasn't due to incompetence of anyone in the system, but that the system is so arcane. ↗