In his Great Victorian novel A TALE OF TWO CITIES. Charles Dickens begins his story with these well known lines:It was the best of times, it was the worst of times; it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness.....; it was the season of light, it was the season of darkness; it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair; we had everything before us, we had nothing before us; we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going the other way.Some might...