Seven Stories Press, Sachbücher, The Disunited States (Englisch, Vladimir Pozner, 2014)
23,48 €
In a cornfield in Summerville, West Virginia, the fourth crop has just been harvested. All around Gauley Bridge, earth was amply repaid with cadavers for the silica the men extracted in the end, the dead, too, were just a byproduct of tunnel construction. There are new crosses in cemeteries in Pennsylvania and Ohio, Maryland and Delaware, but especially the southern states: Florida, Alabama, Georgia and Virginia, and the Carolinas. The last survivors of the two thousand tunnel builders are waiting their turn. They have lost half their body weight and move with great difficulty, scarcely able to breathe. At the bottom of the mine or the corner of a street, in a hospital bed or a cotton field, down to the last man they will strangle to death, and if we think of opening their chests, their lungs will appear compacted, petrified blocks of tumor and silica, Gauley Bridge tunnel silica. That&rsquo s it for the men. Now tell me if anyone in the world has shown more interest in the human race and the problems of the individual than the American businessman.
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