I bought a book....

at "Barking Dog Books" in Marietta, OH. Treason, by Orson Scott Card. I guess it is out of print, and I'm quite happy to have found it in such a little shop. I have read a lot of Orson Scott Card, and almost everyone has at least heard of Ender's Game. But the book I found was one I had never seen before, and stand alone book of his. Most of his works are parts of a series. I was very excited, and I still am, as I read, with every page I turn.

As I was reading just now I read something that made me stop and pause. I thought about all the movies and all the real people that this might apply to, and I thought it a nice little profound statement hidden in a Science Fiction book.

"Heroes and victims are the product of the mood they were in when opportunity came or when circumstances were at their worst."