The Ultimate Truth Is Penultimately Always A

I Went To Communism As One Goes To A Spring Of Fresh Water, And I Left Communism As One Clambers Out Of A Poisoned River Strewn With The Wreckage Of Flooded Cities And The Corpses Of The Drowned.

Man's Destiny Was No Longer Determined From 'above' By A Super-human Wisdom And Will, But From 'below' By The Sub-human Agencies Of Glands, Genes, Atoms, Or Waves Of Probability. ...they Could Determine His Fate, But Could Provide Him With No Moral Guidance, No Values And Meaning. A Puppet Of The Gods Is A Tragic Figure, A Puppet Suspended On His Chromosomes Is Merely Grotesque.

History Had A Slow Pulse; Man Counted In Years, History In Generations

...the Cosmology Of A Given Age Is Not The Result Of Unilinear, "scientific" Development, But Rather The Most Striking, Imaginative Symbol Of Its Mentality- The Projection Of Its Conflicts, Prejudice And Specific Ways Of Double-think Onto The Graceful Sky.

The 'gallows' Are Not Only A Symbol Of Death, But Also A Symbol Of Cruelty, Terror And Irreverence For Life; The Common Denominator Of Primitive Savagery, Medieval Fanaticism And Modern Totalitarianism.