Controlling the High Ground | Scoop News
“Perhaps it is impossible to understand anything unless it happened to you yourself.” - Martha Gellhorn. Gellhorn was not only a superb war correspondent (and Ernest Hemingway's lover), but also a writer who never lost her vigilant sense of self-awareness, born as it was from a profound inner loneliness, a radical political uncertainty, and her consequent habit of merciless self-analysis. It was a quality that enabled her, even in moments of almost unbearably intimate confrontation with the suffering of others, to become the perfect stranger in another's territory, the emissary from a zon...
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