American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc. (Katherine Dunn)

American culture is torn between our long romance with violence and our terror of the devastation wrought by war and crime and environmental havoc.

Katherine Dunn

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