Bernard Malamud.

. . . his fall from grace in his eyes is betrayed in the words he has used to describe himself as he is now:
Fragmented , Abbreviated , other-directed , organizational , antonymous man , a victim.
In the words used to describe him , a kind of synechodochic irony. The declaration exists because he accepts it without protest.

. . . we are drugged by totalitarian successes into a sneaking belief in the dehumanizing process ; or tricked beyond self respect by the creators of our own ridden society.


. . . having invented the means of extinction , man values himself less and lives in daily dread that he will in a fit of passion , or pique absent mindedness, to achieve his end.