Excerpt from There Shall Be No Night After the first performance of There Shall Be NO Night in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 29, 19450, a young man, a stranger, came up to me and said, You certainly have changed your point of view since 'idiot's Delight.' There was a distinct note of accusation in his voice. This was the first of many similar and many less tem perate accusations which this play has provoked. Having identified myself time and again in the past as a pacifist, I had now become a War monger. It is a ...
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Excerpt from There Shall Be No Night After the first performance of There Shall Be NO Night in Providence, Rhode Island, on March 29, 19450, a young man, a stranger, came up to me and said, You certainly have changed your point of view since 'idiot's Delight.' There was a distinct note of accusation in his voice. This was the first of many similar and many less tem perate accusations which this play has provoked. Having identified myself time and again in the past as a pacifist, I had now become a War monger. It is a strange fact that many people who can bear with equanimity all sorts of assaults upon their moral character or their personal habits are goaded' to indignant counter - attack when they are charged with inconsistency. I don't mind being called a black-hearted villain, an enemy of society. In fact, I might even be attered by such dis tinction. But - by God - I'll fight any man who dares to imply that I have been untrue to myself. Therefore, I wish to preface this play with a review Of the development of my own point of view, as it has been expressed in other plays. I want to say that There Shall Be NO Night is not a denial of Idiot's Delight: it is a sequel. I realize that there is an appreciable difference be' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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