"From infancy on, we are all spies; the shame is not this but that the secrets to be discovered are so paltry and few"

This quote by John Updike talks with the idea that from the moment we are birthed, we are continuously observing and also gaining from the world around us. We are all spies, collecting information and also creating our very own analyses of the globe. The shame, nevertheless, is not in this fact, however in the truth that the tricks we uncover are so mundane as well as trivial. Updike is suggesting that the globe is not as mysterious and also exciting as we would like it to be, which the keys we discover are frequently mundane and uninteresting. He is additionally recommending that we ought to not be ashamed of our inquisitiveness as well as our desire to learn, however instead that we should be let down in the lack of interesting secrets that we uncover. Inevitably, Updike is motivating us to keep discovering as well as discovering, even if the secrets we discover are not as exciting as we would like them to be.