"Beneath that skin there's a meanness, a rancour, a mindless violence brewing . . . which for the first time in three hundred years we can neither take to war nor import to some remote colony, dressed up as civilisation, honest commerce, religion or any other kind of mumbo-jumbo. I doubt you'll ever again find so much impotent fury draining like pus into the glum business of daily existence. Or else into macabre fantasies of where to point the finger and who to smash, who to blame, how to legitimise a new order of hatred on the grounds that the old one's succumbing to violence and anarchy."
—David Mercer, Cousin Vladimir (1978)
—David Mercer, Cousin Vladimir (1978)
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