Beat Mackenzie

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    And at dawn, the drums still beat on the sleepless plain like an unstoppable heart.
    Jacques Roumain (1907–1945)

    People sometimes tell me that they prefer barbarism to civilisation. I doubt if they have given it a long enough trial. Like the people of Alexandria, they are bored by civilisation; but all the evidence suggests that the boredom of barbarism is infinitely greater.
    —Kenneth MacKenzie Clark, Baron of Saltwood (1903–1983)