All the old supports going, gone, this man reaches out a hand to steady himself on a ledge of rough brick that is warm in the sun:... his hand feeds him messages of solidity, but his mind messages of destruction, for this breathing substance, made of earth, will be a dance of atoms, he knows it, his intelligence tells him so: there will soon be war, he is in the middle of war, where he stands will be a waste, mounds of rubble, and this solid earthy substance will be a film of dust on ruins.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
We often have need of a profound philosophy to restore to our feelings their original state of innocence, to find our way out of t...he rubble of things alien to us, to begin to feel for ourselves and to speak ourselves, and I might almost say to exist ourselves.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
You have to give this much to the Luftwaffe: when it knocked down our buildings it did not replace them with anything more offensi...ve than rubble. We did that.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I think of the nestling fallen into the deep grass, The turtle gasping in the dusty rubble of the highway,... The paralytic stunned in the tub, and the water rising,-- All things innocent, hapless, forsaken.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of... freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It looks as if we may be presented with a kind of vast municipal fire station.... What is proposed is like a monstrous carbuncle o...n the face of a much loved and elegant friend.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »