WritingWriting involves risksthe risk that one will be misunderstood, the risk of being persecuted, the risks of being made a champion for causes in which one does not believe, this risk of inadvertently supporting a readers prejudices, to name a few. In trying to give expression to what is true, the writer must clear a passage within the agitated world of passions, an undertaking that always to some extent fails: writers are never the master of their own