Re; Hitchens (and Marx/Negri) on genocide

Peter K. peterk at enteract.com
Fri Dec 7 14:18:05 PST 2001



>> "Men fight and lose the battle, and the thing that
>> they fought for comes about in spite of defeat,
>> and when it comes it turns out not to be what
>> they meant, and other men have to fight for
>> what they meant under another name."
>>
>
>What's most impressive about this are the lovely sentence
rhythms, which
>create the illusion that something is being said.
>
>Carrol

Oh come on, I bet if you put your mind to it you can get what Morris is driving at. It's from The Dream of John Ball if you need some context and help.

Peter



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