Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. | |
— William Faulkner | |
From his acceptance speech for the 1949 Nobel Prize for Literature | |
[Is the fear of our time “the terrorist” who might blow us up or is it a lack of hope in a future where the very rich (without meaningful employment) rule the masses of the poor (without gainful employment)? — kmab] | |
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2012 | Sustained Fear |
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Archive for November 9th, 2012
Sustained Fear
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