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linn1378 's review for:
Small Wonder
by Barbara Kingsolver
We now know so very much about the world, or at least the part of it that is most picturesquely exploding on any given day, that we're left with a desperate sense that all of it is exploding, all the time. As far as I can tell, that is the intent and purpose of the television news.
I wish our national anthem were not the one about the bombs bursting in air, but the one about purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain.
Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.
I wish our national anthem were not the one about the bombs bursting in air, but the one about purple mountain majesties and amber waves of grain.
Sometimes I've survived anger only one minute at a time, by saying to myself again and again that the best revenge is some kind of life beyond this, some kind of goodness. And I can lay no claim to goodness until I can prove that mean people have not made me mean.