Both Sides of the Moon (2012)
“Then one day in boys’ homes and then graduate on to borstal, to become big boy with big name if fight as warrior. One inevitable day become big man fighting with others of your ilk in a prison exercise yard, in prison toilets, shower blocks, behind anywhere the fight can’t be stopped by authority, fighting can’t bear to be stopped, it feels too good, feels like you’ve been released. Even when you’re in a steel-barred cage, even when you’re in an emotional prison, even when you know you’re dying... or dead of something inside, fighting sets you free. Or thinks it does.
The young don’t see the sneery smiles of studious types from another race, nor the contempt of true people, adequate people, nor see their own grim, hopeless future, nor inner brokenness, nor know why and what process has done all this. Warrior child sees nothing. Nothing he’ll admit to.
Only sees other warriors, mostly brown of skin; it must be in our nature, we must be born good fighters, must be compelled by our genes, or our limited understanding, or a blindness in our inherited outlook.MoreLess
The young don’t see the sneery smiles of studious types from another race, nor the contempt of true people, adequate people, nor see their own grim, hopeless future, nor inner brokenness, nor know why and what process has done all this. Warrior child sees nothing. Nothing he’ll admit to.
Only sees other warriors, mostly brown of skin; it must be in our nature, we must be born good fighters, must be compelled by our genes, or our limited understanding, or a blindness in our inherited outlook.MoreLess
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