Status Updates From Am Gletscher

“Country people cannot understand why the emissaries of Christendom don’t drive about in cars; indeed, it’s unlikely that Saint Paul would have been flogged in Thessalonica if he had a jeep in working order.”

“Destitute people know no other amusement than killing destitute people. Of all the creatures that man kills for his amusement there is only one he kills out of hatred—other men. Man hates nothing as much as himself. That is why war is called the leprosy of the human soul.” (109)