Burn This Book

moment when I am no more than a writer I shall cease to be a writer.

is at the same time a political being, constantly aware of what goes on in the world, whether it be harrowing, bitter or sweet, and he cannot help being shaped by it.”16 Neither can the art. And there emerges Guernica.

And surely, in this moment in the history of our species, when there is such a danger of forgetting and so much inducement to forget, we must not waste our limited time here doing anything else.