No way out for this list

[Terrance F. Flaherty]

Paul Mackin wrote:

> Yes, even in a hopeless situation it's better to be kind to each
> other. Not much of an answer but the only one there is.
> 
>                         P.


I recall that you read Roth's Human Stain. 

On April 1, 1950, Drew died after an auto accident in rural
North Carolina. Within hours, rumors spread: the man who
helped create
the first American Red Cross blood bank had bled to death
because a
whites-only hospital refused to treat him. Drew was in fact
treated in the emergency
room of the small, segregated Alamance General Hospital.
Two white surgeons worked hard to save him, but he died
after about an
hour.

BUT, 

The Drew legend is true: throughout the segregated era,
African Americans were turned away at hospital doors, either
because the hospitals were "whites-only" or because the
"black beds"  were "full."  

"There is truth and then again there is truth. For all that
the world is full of people that go around believing they've
got you or your neighbor figured out, there really is no
bottom to what is not known. The truth about us is endless.
As are the lies. Caught between I though...The pure and the
impure, in all their vehemence, on the move, akin in their
common need of the enemy. Whipsawed, I though. Whipsawed by
the inimical teeth of this world. By the antagonism that IS
this world."  [315-16]

It's a language environment, yes, Word against truth, Word
against Earth, Word against 
humanity, Word against Word. What good, what truth, what?
What can come of such language games?