Greeted by exactly this, Callous Introspection, does more than pull the curtains wide on Robert W.G. Ross’s articulate bold enterprise. It unveils the journey lived by an avid ponderer, a journey that forces us to make his most intimate acquaintance. Through a vivid stream of lucid consciousness, drawing upon fragile skepticism and divulging the rash imminent need for understanding, we become entrenched in the author’s candid love affair with life’s most common questions. Ross invites us to invoke our own life experiences that season the internal coming-of-age turbulence he so willingly dissects. Unhinging a spectrum of speculation spawned from the simplest of our every day, to attacking some of man’s most controversial debates, Ross becomes a vibrant slave to his own perpetual inner dialogue.