More specifically, the sentence is:
The will of the people, in America, has always been at the mercy of an
ignorance not merely phenomenal, but sacred, and sacredly cultivated:
the better to be used by a carnivorous economy which democratically
slaughters and victimizes whites and blacks alike.
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In Part I of Carrie, Stephen King writes:
Like Flatlands Society, the Rosicrucians, or the Corlies of Arizona, who are positive that the atomic bomb does not work, these unfortunates are flying in the face of logic with their heads in the sand-and beg your pardon for the mixed metaphor.
Knowing...
I would like to know what "for bad's come over her" means in the following sentences:
I even went to a policeman, a good enough sort of man, but a fellow
I'd never spoke to before because of his livery, and I asks him if his
'cuteness could find any thing out for us. So I believe he asks other
p...
The Phantom Tollbooth is all about the boy Milo's voyage of discovery through the allegorical lands of Wisdom (and Ignorance). At the beginning of the story, he starts off in the real world being bored and dissatisfied, seemingly with nothing to do or enjoy in his life. When he returns after ever...
Essay Review on "Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema"
I read this somewhere in the late 1980s to the early 1990s as a library book in Ashland, KY. Most of my memories of the book are pretty fragmentary, but it involved at least one caucasian boy along with one or more friends who were solving mysteries they came upon (I think it was entirely things ...
I read it like 7 years ago. Many scientist, I remember Einstein, are there. You can only go if you are invited. Every time someone leaves, you can see from the window of the hotel the time he/she came from...
