“You can't rewind war. It spools on, and on, and on, looping and jumping, distorted and cracked with age, and the stories contract until only the nuggets of hatred remain and no one can even remember, or imagine, why the war was organized in the first place.” FirstsWarStoriesAgeRememberImagineHatredOrganizedContractsJumpingCrackedNuggetsRewind Author:Alexandra Fuller
“Once, I discovered the skulls of two impala rams, their horns locked into an irreversible figure-of-eight; the two animals had been trapped in combat, latched to each other during the battle of the rut. The harder they had pulled to escape from each other, the more intractably stuck they were, until they had fallen exhausted, to their knees, in an embrace of hatred that had killed them both.” TwoAnimalFiguresBattleHatredHarderEmbraceEightStuckKneesFallenCombatLockedTrappedExhaustedHornsSkullsRutsIrreversibleRams Book:Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood Source: Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood
