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Insightful so far. Though I was aware of some of these notions, either by chance of having read similar thoughts on the internet or by personal intuition, it is much more fulfilling and enriching to see them laid out on paper by such a great mind as the late Edward Said.

So many good moments so far.

"The greatest terror a child can have is that he is not loved, and rejection is the hell he fears. I think everyone in the world to a large or small extent has felt rejection. And with rejection comes anger, and with anger some kind of crime in revenge for the rejection, and with the crime the guilt—and there is the story of mankind." (321)