![]() ![]() He saw kisses exchanged in doorways and wallets returned and men who had come to a splitting of the way and chosen the right fork. He saw four men rescue a little boy from a monster whose entire head seemed to consist of a single eye.īut more important than any of these was the vast, accretive weight of small things, from planes which hadn’t crashed to men and women who had come to the correct place at the perfect time and thus founded generations. The terrorist had been transfixed by nothing more than the sky, and the thought that it arced above the just and unjust alike. ![]() He saw a terrorist wired up with explosives suddenly turn away from a crowded restaurant in a city that might have been Jerusalem. ![]() He saw a man who intended to poison the entire water supply of Denver die of a heart attack in a roadside rest-stop on I-80 in Iowa with a bag of McDonald’s French fries on his lap. A Nazi Oberleutnant burning a piece of paper with the date and place of the D-Day Invasion written on it. A teenage boy named Albert Schweitzer getting out of a bathtub and not quite stepping on the cake of soap lying beside the pulled plug. ![]() Albert Einstein as a child, not quite struck by a run-away milk-wagon as he crossed a street. ![]()
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