The Empty Shield
The Empty Shield Literary Nonfiction. A people's history and the horror of war: Howard Zinn meets Apocalypse Now. Michael Moorcock's New Statesman Book of the Year. March 1972, about to graduate from…
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The Empty Shield
Literary Nonfiction. A people's history and the horror of war: Howard Zinn meets Apocalypse Now. Michael Moorcock's New Statesman Book of the Year.
March 1972, about to graduate from NYU. Political autobiography. A journey: two days and nights in the New York subway.
Love it or leave it. A decision: become a Great Academic Marxist; blow up the Williamsburg Bridge; go into exile. Vietnam Veterans with placards, for and against the war.
Seven placard-men at the seven gates of Thebes, brandishing their shields. A decision. Political or personal?
Or pure Zen? Mind or no-mind? Kill for peace!
Dylan, Hendrix, or the Fugs. The two Suzukis, or Dogen. Monk and Coltrane!
The relation between Hegel's logic of thinking as such and his logic of practice, which does not exist. The screech of the subway stops. A fork where three roads cross, the realm of shadows, what is to be done?
A Chinese menu?