December 2009
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Governed by A General and Universal Physical Fear
On the topic of Nobel acceptance speeches, here’s William Faulkner, accepting his Nobel Prize in Literature in 1950:
Our tragedy today is a general and universal physical fear so long sustained by now that we can even bear it. There are no longer problems of the spirit. There is only the question: When will I be blown up?
More applicable today than ever. Combined with such a simple...