Jim Laczkowski

“Ignorance is the parent of fear.”
― Herman Melville, Moby-Dick or, The Whale

“We tell ourselves stories in order to live.”
― Joan Didion, The White Album

“...when he walks, he sounds like a tree still full of dead leaves holding on.”
― Zachary Schomburg, The Man Suit

“Don't forget the real business of war is buying and selling. The murdering and violence are self-policing, and can be entrusted to non-professionals. The mass nature of wartime death is useful in many ways. It serves as spectacle, as diversion from the real movements of the War. It provides raw material to be recorded into History, so that children may be taught History as sequences of violence, battle after battle, and be more prepared for the adult world. Best of all, mass death's a stimolous to just ordinary folks, little fellows, to try 'n' grab a piece of that Pie while they're still here to gobble it up. The true war is a celebration of markets.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity’s Rainbow