When Did You Become An American?
| when I got stuck in traffic on I-95, while I was listening to a news report on NPR about the Bartholdi Museum in Colmar, France dedicated to the creator of the Statue of Liberty and an Italian tourist visiting the site, in the most melodic tone said: Libertà che illumina il mondo, ha! Invaders, torturers, empire builders... You are a country of darkness now; you don’t even deserve the discolored copper of this beauty — first it sounded like yet another European highbrow haughtiness, then I felt a dagger penetrating my belly. |