Unpacking, in my case, leads to re-reading. I've found old notebooks with profound if juvenile ramblings, scraps of scratch paper with disembodied quotes or book titles, comic books I don't remember buying with storylines I don't remember reading, and book after book I've loved.

Near to the end of Terry Pratchett's Guards! Guards!, the Patrician offers an opinion about good people and bad. The only thing the good people are good at, he says, is overthrowing the bad ones. But the bad always take over the reins of power because they can do something the good cannot: the bad guys can plan. I realized that within this concept of human nature, the Bush Administration fits the definition of the good guys!