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From another conversation...
Another unanswerable truth: Who can deny that murder is the defining act of
our century, as other centuries might have been defined by prayer or
mendicancy? Who can put hand on heart and say that the characteristic
gesture of the twentieth century is not that of one person killing another?
Fifty million dead in the Second World War alone, not to mention the Great
War and all the other wars, civil and international, manmade famines,
individual killings, spouse-murderings, killings of strangers, revenge
killings, race killings, the murders we commit all the time, the murder we
are committing even as we sit here, of indifference to those being murdered,
I could go on. Every murder contains within itself all murder; each
individual act that takes another person's life is the microcosm of our
century, as well as another death to add to the total. How can any work of
art compare with that, or speak to it, or dare to exist in the face of it at
all?
Murder is just a word for nothing else to say.
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Andrew Vogel: Manager of Professional Programs at the University of
Cincinnati College of Pharmacy
http://pharmacy.uc.edu (513)-558-3784
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