Regarding the topic at hand, there is a passage I would like to quote first. It comes from "The Enemy" (2004), one of the novels in the series featuring the truly compelling protagonist Jack Reacher, written by Lee Child—an author whose work I love and read avidly. It is a conversation Jack Reacher has with a certain woman. "I have to go to Paris," I said. "Paris, Texas?" she said. "Or Paris, Kentucky, or Paris, Tennessee?" "Paris, France," I said. "The Enemy" by Lee Child (p