“The center was not holding. It was a country of
bankruptcy notices and public-auction announcements and commonplace reports of
casual killings and misplaced children and abandoned homes and vandals who
misplaced even the four-letter words they scrawled. It was a country in which
families routinely disappeared from city to torn city, sloughing off both the
past and the future as snakes shed their skins, children who were never taught
and would never now learn the games that had held the society together. People
were missing. Children were missing. Parents were missing. Those left behind
filed desultory missing-persons reports, then moved on themselves.”
- Joan Didion, 1967
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