"Those who crusade, not for God in themselves, but against the devil in others, never succeed in making the world better, but leave it either as it was, or sometimes perceptibly worse than what it was, before the crusade began. By thinking primarily of evil we tend, however excellent our intentions, to create occasions for evil to manifest itself." -- Aldous Huxley "The only war that matters is the war against the imagination. All others are subsumed by it." -- Diane DiPrima, "Rant", from Pieces of a Song. "It is difficult to get the news from poems yet men die miserably every day for lack of what is found there" -- William Carlos Williams, "Asphodel, That Greeny Flower" Dr H in the Holy Land IV: Land 27 July, 2008 — peoplesgeography.com The battle here is about land… and it has always been. Last night Nicholas took us to his...
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