Then too both books are stories of human striving, where everything achieved is difficult and won at great cost. No question that life has gotten a bit soft and convenient lately and plush and fat, especially for Americans. Nearly everyone is working. More people than ever can buy their own homes. Every time Alan Greenspan appears on television millions of mortgage holders redo their loans.
Shoppers order out.
Get Direct TV and watch a billion channels. Shop by catalogue, bank by computer. Millennium time and the living is easy. And it could be that people do not want it to be quite as easy as it is. Of course, they order it on the Internet.