Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

This isn't working, the Cascader thought. I must try a different approach. You were killed once yourself, we'ren't you?

Seeing so much suffering for so long hardened his heart.

This book views the war on terrorism from Kenneth Burke's perspective— dramatism and the related concept of victimage ritual —and the problematic of ruling liberal societies.