To be a upright charitable being is to be enduring a kind of openness to the world, an skill to trust unsure things beyond your own manage, that can govern you to be shattered in very outermost circumstances on which you were not to blame. That says something exceedingly important thither the fettle of the righteous autobiography: that it is based on a trust in the fitful and on a willingness to be exposed; it's based on being more like a plant than like a treasure, something kind of feeble, but whose acutely special attraction is inseparable from that fragility.