Wednesday, January 05, 2005

 
Re NRO "1957 Whittaker Chambers on the space race"

Meanwhile, back on earth....

From "Cold Friday" by Whittaker Chambers:


page 325:
"....Put out of your mind for a moment the thermonuclear fear, the rocketry and the terrors that lie beyond. Under this appalling, dwarfing mass that troubles us - troubles us all the more because most of it we see the way an animal's eyes see *us* at night, as shapeless patches of the darker dark - under this leaning overhang lives man: people in our undifferentiated millions, bounded by our household cares and happinesses, the fathers and mothers of children, grandfathers and grandmothers of grandchildren in whom we see the continuation of a pulse that began with the Creation."