"The road to death is a long march beset
with all evils, and the heart fails little by little
at each new terror, the bones rebel at each step,
the mind sets up its own bitter resistance and 
to what end?  The barriers sink one by one,
and no covering of the eyes shuts out
the landscape of disaster, nor the sight
of crimes committed there"

Katherine Ann Porter
Pale Horse, Pale Rider