The Art of Racing in the Rain

by Garth Stein

I see green as gray. I see red as black. Does that make me a bad potential person? If you taught me to read and provided for me the same computer system as someone has provided for Stephen Hawking, I, too, would write great books. And yet you don’t teach me to read, and you don’t give me a computer stick I can push around with my nose to point at the next letter I wish typed. So whose fault is it that I am what I am?

I love Enzo's desperate appeal to the reader at this moment. "Just give me a Stephen Hawking computer and I'll explain everything to you!" I mean, to Enzo, the solution is that simple. Of course, we readers recognize that he's skipping a few steps in his process...