She wondered how to un-know certain things, certain specific things that she knew but did not wish to know - Arundhati Roy

Impelled by feelings that were primal yet paradoxically wholly impersonal. Feelings of contempt born of inchoate, unacknowledged fear — civilization's fear of nature, men's fear of women, power's fear of powerlessness. Man's subliminal urge to destroy what he could neither subdue nor deify.

In the last ten years of unbridled Corporate Globalization...the numbers of poor in the world has increased by 100 million.

Neither question nor answer was meant as anything more than a polite preamble to conversation.