2/Part One

These are all of the characters written up, comprising most of those
of any major or minor importance. Others may be added by these are
major characters, and principal minor characters.

Principally it is an effort to make the reader understand the
workings of the minds of Pruitt and Warden (my Flagg and Quirt) and
also the reasons for their minds being the way they are.

In the background of this purpose are all the other characters,
who fit into this whole pattern of modern life as we have it, and
who, each in his own way, wants and needs understanding.

If there is any searching for generalities of life and of life's
 purposes, it will be in Part One.

Perhaps it will be better to think of it as make it Book One, and
then divide it into two parts: Part One, peacetime before Pearl
Harbor; Part Two, wartime in Wahoo after Pearl Harbor.