End of the Road in Sight

Dear Peoples,
So vanity of vanities, all is vanity, so sayeth the preacher. Those of you who have had a talk lasting more than thirty seconds with me will be all too aware that my greatest hero, outside of friends and family, was a seemingly invincible Portuguese, no less than the one and only Mr. Jose Saramago. Everywhere I go these days people are talking about freedom. Among the hoi polloi they are discussing freedom intellectually, and in intellectual circles they are discussing Freedom...