“I stood as close to them as I could without being one of them, and then I stood as far back as I could without leaving the planet.”
Michael Herr
more infosource: Dispatches (New York: Everyman’s Library, 2009), 62.
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category: brutality, distance, proximity, vantage point, war
medium: nonfiction
notes: quoted by Mary Karr in her Twitter feed
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