Famous Quotes | All the old supports going,...

All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun: his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins. - Doris Lessing
Attribution: Doris Lessing (b. 1919), British novelist. Johor, in Shikasta, “Johor: Additional Explanatory Information, II,” p. 198, Knopf (1979).

Categories: Destruction, War

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