No one ever understood disaster until it came.
The world comes second hand - fifth hand - to us and the illusion that it is fresh because it is shown as a picture of an actual place or is given as a 'true account' by some reporter who claims to have been 'there' divides man into incalculable parts without any true center.
The law is not abstract, impartially arbitrating between conflicting social classes; it is a tool in the hands of those who govern.