“And all this time that I’ve worried over the state of my soul, I shouldn’t have bothered,” Genevieve said… — Sheri S. Tepper

He blunders about like an ape in an apiary, infuriating the inhabitants and missing all the sweetness!

“I’ve met people like him.” Garth nodded sagely. “Men of customary inaction who can be spurred to sporadic excess. Such men often start ill-planned projects that they lack either energy to complete or the wit to abandon.”

I know you want me to believe all this, but it seems little different from the religious stories we learned in school, esoteric and relatively pointless.