Status Updates From Slouching Towards Bethlehem

“At some point between 1945 and 1967 we had somehow neglected to tell these children the rules of the game we happened to be playing. Maybe we had stopped believing in the rules ourselves, maybe we were having a failure of nerve about the game. Maybe there were just too few people around to do the telling.” - p. 123

only a few pages in and my goodness does she have an eye and gift for writing so happy to break my joan virginity