I'm reading the book True Nature, The Pilgrimage of Peter Matthiessen. In an early chapter, when he was a kid, I identified with him as he was alienated from his indifferent philandering father, and later on I read that he became like his father, toward women and children, though he made a great success in the world. I'm realizing I get the same feeling of sadness I had about my father when I look at the progress of the Obamachron.