Our generation has had no Great Depression, no Great War.Our War is spiritual...
...Our Depression is our lives.
"Things will be different afterward," she said. "Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone.We'll have new laws and new ways of living.Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, you see."
"Maybe there'll be a law to keep all seventeen-year-old girls in school learning sense," he said,standing up."There won't be any schools," she said flatly."No one will learn anything. To keep from getting back where we are now."
"Things will be different afterward," she said. "Everything that makes the world like it is now will be gone.We'll have new laws and new ways of living.Maybe there'll be a law not to live in houses, so then no one can hide from anyone else, you see."
"Maybe there'll be a law to keep all seventeen-year-old girls in school learning sense," he said,standing up."There won't be any schools," she said flatly."No one will learn anything. To keep from getting back where we are now."