Tomorrow we’ll be blown sky high
People who triumph in this world don’t last long
On August 24th of 1945, weeks after atomic bombs decimated the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, American writer Malcolm Cowley sent a letter to his friend, the philosopher and poet Kenneth Burke.
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