Michael Malone - Weebly

itself was not strong enough to contain them, then surely
women were right, and only their instinct to create life
must keep them from withdrawing into Amazonian
fortresses of civilization, from which they would emerge
merely long enough to be impregnated among the
savages.
But, no, it wasn't that bad. Who were all these
rapists? He didn't know any. How many men could
there be under such compulsion, such unbearable
hatred of women? Or fear. It must be fear really. The
disenfranchised preying on those more disenfranchised
than they. In his office (days, weeks, years ago) he had
pledged himself to take up her quest, to help Maynard
Henry. Dear God, now he himself may have helped the
animal who had ravaged her to escape its cage. Had
Henry done it? Had he? But he had believed Henry
about Treeca and about Haig! What if Haig had been
right? Why, damn it, had she ever gotten herself
involved in this? If only the Vietnamese girl hadn't come
and asked. Oh, "if only," absurd! If only America had
never gone to Vietnam so that Chin Lam would have
never been evacuated, so Henry never would have