Search for the New Land, 1969Excerpt, p.169-70 Violence was defined as a bullet in the brain and unrecognized was the fact that this kind of violence was only a manifestation of the violence done to the soul which made the young talk incessantly of Love and carry flowers. The report of a rifle is all too obviously violent, while the violence done to the soul has no sound, but if one looks closely into the faces passing on the street, its effects are unmistakeable. They are faces that can scream JUMP! at someone on a hotel window ledge, faces so strangled with fear that they will give no more than a glance to someone lying on a sidewalk. It is the violence of "If I have one life to live, let me live it as a blonde." It is the violence of air pollution so pervasive that infants in carriages are brought inside with flakes of soot in their hair and on their faces. The bombing of Hiroshima was the logical extension of the New York subway system. |
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