To be truly radical is to make hope possible rather than despair convincing

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

They tried to kick in my front door and steal my car. The gunshots went all through the night.

They tried to kick in my front door and steal my car, ... The gunshots went all through the night.

'Country' and 'city' are very powerful words, and this is not surprising when we remember how much they seem to stand for in the experience of human communities. In English, 'country' is both a nation and a part of a 'land'; 'the country' can be the whole society or its rural area. In the long history of human settlements, this connection between the land from which directly or indirectly we all get our living and the achievements of human society has been deeply known.

Language is, then, positively a distinctly human opening of and opening to the world: Not just a distinguishable or instrumental but a constitutive faculty.