When A Book Is Alive, Really Alive,

Unlike Solidarity, Which Is Horizontal And Takes Place Between Equals, Charity Is Top-down, Humiliating Those Who Receive It And Never Challenging The Implicit Power Relations.

Our Defeat Was Always Implicit In The Victory Of Others; Our Wealth Has Always Generated Our Poverty By Nourishing The Prosperity Of Others - The Empires And Their Native Overseers. In The Colonial And Neocolonial Alchemy, Gold Changes Into Scrap Metal And Food Into Poison.

The Population Becomes The Internal Enemy. Any Sign Of Life, Of Protest, Or Even Mere Doubt, Is A Dangerous Challenge From The Standpoint Of Military Doctrine And National Security. So Complicated Mechanisms Of Prevention Adn Punishment Have Been Developed ... To Operate Effectively, The Repression Must Appear Arbitrary. Apart From Breathing, Any Human Activity Can Constitute A Crime ... State Terrorism Aims To Paralyze The Population With Fear.

Memory. My Poison, My Food.

The World Is A Heap Of People, A Sea Of Tiny Flames.