If that’s how it all started, then we might as well face the fact that what’s left out there is a great deal of shrapnel and a whole bunch of cinders (one of which is, fortunately, still hot enough and close enough to be good for tanning).
ATTRIBUTION:
Barbara Ehrenreich (b. 1941), U.S. author, columnist. (First published 1986). “Blocking the Gates to Heaven,” The Worst Years of Our Lives (1991).
