“—the transition from any value system to a new one must pass<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
through the zero- point of atomic dissolution, must take its way<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
through a generation destitute of any connection with either the<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
old or the new system, a generation whose very detachment, whose<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
almost insane indifference to the suffering of others, whose state<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
of denudation of values proves an ethical and so an historical jus-<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
tification for the ruthless rejection, in times of revolution, of all<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
that is humane . . . And perhaps it must be so, since only such a<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
generation is able to endure the sight of the Absolute and the<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
rising glare of freedom, the light that flares out over the deepest<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
darkness, and only over the deepest darkness . . .”<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Excerpted from “The House Gun”, author Nadine Gordimer.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Publisher: Penguin Group [USA] Inc., 375 Hudson Street,<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
New York, New York 10014, U.S. A.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
The author wrote the above in the context of the end of apartheid<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
in South Africa. She also is winner of the Nobel Prize in literature.<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n
Islander.<\/p>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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