• Walter M. Miller Jr. on Bombs, Bitterness, and Half-Remembered Eden

    Bombs and tantrums, when the world grew bitter because the world fell somehow short of half-remembered Eden. The bitterness was essentially against God. Listen, Man, you have to give up the bitterness — "be granting shriv'ness to God," as she'd say– before anything; before love. But bombs and tantrums. They didn't forgive.