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To: Ilaine who wrote (8960)	9/13/2001 1:23:47 PM
From: jim black	Respond to of 74559

Yes, anger brings us close to the apes we were, and yes Descartes would be quite proud of you. I haven't grappled with this level of anger since JFK was shot. I was working that day as a pre-med student in Austin and his schedule had him routed to Austin after Dallas and I was on ER duty at Breckenridge Hospital that afternoon as an orderly. It struck particularly close to home. I remember Ben Kingsley as Gandhi saying, "An eye for an eye will leave the whole world blind." I also know from his writings that he was committed to using Satyagraha (non-violence) against Hitler and for that I thought he was a misled fool. I believe we have opened a terrible book now, the first chapter being written in New York. God by any name help us all. I do hope to read your book on the history of the Depression. Just finished reading Barbara Tuckman's "A Distant Mirror." You have no doubt read it. A dreadful chapter in the Western history of our species. I can't forget those little historical soundbites from college days, e.g., as you remember, Plato's observation that only the dead have seen the end of war. Little consolation to those of us here who take NO consolation from such words as we watch New York and Washington. Yes I admit I want revenge, on a huge scale, as big in the perspective of the perpetrators as the WTC is to us. That is going to have to be pretty big scale. Jim Black