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Why this insight should require seven books is another mystery, at least for those who believe that readers are capable of arriving at non- comprehension on their own. Coles' distaste for ideas and intellectual analysis is profound and usually presented in his books along with the belief that truth will somehow radiate out of unexamined statements by children. Coles seems to think morality is the indefinable and unpredictable result of simply making decisions. A footnote says, "I can only get a bit mystical here, summon the notion of action as 'transcendence,' and, admittedly, risk murkiness and evasion." But why pass along such confusion at book length? As the author writes at one point, "I am, yet again, coming up with nothing very startling."