Sunday, December 20, 2020

Hold It All [by Mark]


 

It must have been 1983, springtime: I asked former classmate Ray Pruitt what he’d been reading: “Last night, Kierkegaard, Proust, and Phil Berrigan.”


Father Berrigan, right and his brother Philip Berrigan seized hundreds of draft records and set them on fire with homemade napalm in 1968.

Phil and Dan Berrigan, Catonsville action, May 1968

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1 comment:

  1. Mark ChmielDecember 22, 2020 at 12:10 PM

    More on Ray--
    https://holditall.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/ray-pruitt-presente/

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