Now I’m reading Hemingway, and Ravitch …
Hemingway wrote: “They’ve got to get rid of us. You can see that, can’t you?” “Why?” “Because we are the desperate ones. The ones with nothing to lose. We are the completely brutalized ones…we have been beaten so far that the only solace…and the only pride is in being able to take it.” And later, the lead character take a final breath and utters life’s lesson, “No matter how, a man alone ain’t got no bloody … chance.”