In the thick of the battle

February 18th, 2009 • Books, Conflict
Tags: Armageddon, battle, genocide, quote, rwanda

…and it might well happen to most of us dainty people that we were in the thick of the battle of Armageddon without being aware of anything more than the annoyance of little explosive smoke and struggle on the ground immediately abous us.

- George Eliot, Daniel Deronda

(quoted in Philip Gourevitch’s We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Out Families)

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