What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No … - Tony Kushner

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Fleas know not whether they are upon the body of a giant or upon one of ordinary size.

Tony Kushner

What makes the voice pathetic is that it doesn't know what kind of people it's reaching. Us. No one hears it, except us. This Age wanted heroes. It got us instead: carefully constructed, but immobile. Subtle but, unfit to take up the burden of the times. It happens. A whole generation of washouts. History says stand up, and we totter and collapse, weeping, moved, but not sufficient.

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