Being defiant is a two-year-old who doesn’t want to go to bed when he’s tired. Being resolute is standing one’s ground even in the face of opposition. It’s a man’s virtue, not a toddler’s vice.

Git’er DoneThey beat their swords upon their shieldsTo no beast or man would they yield

It was not for me, after these last seventy-two hours, to reject as too outlandish the possibility that the situation for him here had driven George crazy. Yet I did reject it. It was just...

But that’s the Way, and there is no other. And once his mind’s made up, the trembling and aimless walking stops, and he can look doom in the face without flinching. (“Jane Brown’s Body”)