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embraces and terror
I'm currently reading Eduardo Galeano's The Book of Embraces, a book recommended to me by James Luckett, of Consumptive. It's a collection of tales, meditations and autobiographical anecdotes about the big topics: love, death, human resilience, state violence. Many of them are perfect blog-entry length:
the culture of terror / 7
Blatant colonialism mutilates you without pretense: it forbids you to talk, it forbids you to act, it forbids you to exist. Invisible colonialism, however, convinces you that serfdom is your nature: it convinces you that it's not possible to speak, not possible to act, not possible to exist.
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Monday, March 08, 2004
10:47 PM
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