At Gook's best, Chon captures, with sharply memorable dialogue, both
the essence of his particular characters but also the broad drift of generations.
He will mistrust or reject, however, specific moral maxims which, by their universality and eternally permanent
character, claim to bind men in every situation without exception, on the sole condition that the universal norm, expressing an
essence, is relevant to the
particular human being in this or that definite situation, precisely because
of the presence there
of what the maxim in question designates and applies to.