Youve probably been too close to this war weve gone through to properly understand it. Actually, it was something entirely different from a war - the liquidation of a society, and even of a world, or rather the beginning of their liquidation. The progress that science and engineering have made, the economic changes that have come about, will convulse the earth to such an extent that even our ways of thinking and feeling will be revolutionized. Well even have difficulty remembering just who and what we had once been. And, among other things, art and literature will become nothing more than peripheral divertissements. Dont you see? What weight will the message of French writers have when the earth is ruled by either Russia or the United States? No one will understand them any more; very few will even speak their language. - Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
Posted on: Fri, 13 Jun 2014 15:24:30 +0000
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