Tuesday, June 02, 2009

Great Regulars: Henry David Thoreau, whom I studied

and grew to love in college, once said, "When I hear music, I fear no danger. I am invulnerable. I see no foe. I am related to the earliest of times and to the latest."

We don't hear music anymore, not in Pakistan, and we are becoming disconnected from our time and our people. We are beginning to think that suicide bombings are ordinary, that 24 dead is not a big loss, that the sound of gunfire is harmless, like fireworks.

from Fatima Bhutto: The Daily Beast: The Terror Diaries

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