The Open Self - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1436713056 ISBN 13: 9781436713054

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Man asH isO wn Maker IT IS HALFWAY BETWEEN MIDNIGHT AND dawn. The last two lighted windows on the street have just been darkened. The last pair of laughing celebrants has passed by to silence. And I begin a book. Morning was to be the time of beginning. But the words started to say themselves, and they would not remain pillowed. So I write in a little room in this city where Whitman and Melville wrote of the colors and the shadows of this A merica, beginning a book halfway between midnight and dawn. New York City. Early autumn. 3A.M. Musing three remarks. One from a man of wealth with aN ew York City home and a Long Island estate. He has played the praised and accepted game of power and has won its rewards. But he said a few days ago, If I were God I would put my thumb down on this city and wipe it out! And as he spoke he pressed his thumb on the mahogany table top and twisted it around as if annihilating an insect. A smartly dressed girl, fresh from sailing on theS ound, spoke in a more current idiom: I would like to ride in the plane that would atom-bomb Western culture. The third remark completes the triangle.
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• ISBN 10: 1436713056
• ISBN 13: 9781436713054
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