Lewis Lapham

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    Your kisses close my eyes and yet you stare
    As though God struck a child with nameless fears;
    —Alun Lewis (1915–1944)

    Under the rules of a society that cannot distinguish between profit and profiteering, between money defined as necessity and money defined as luxury, murder is occasionally obligatory and always permissible.
    —Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)