Clarice Lispector, The Apple in the Dark, trans. Benjamin Moser (1961; New Directions, 2023).
As quoted by William T. Vollmann in Rising Up, Rising Down: Some Thoughts on Violence, Freedom and Urgent Means (Ecco, 2004).
The Covenant, the Sword, and the Arm of the Lord (CSA) was a white separatist survivalist group whose compound in Marion County, Arkansas was raided by the ATF on April 19, 1985. Richard Snell, a member of CSA, was later sentenced to death for the attempted murder of a pawn shop owner and the murder of Louis Bryant, a Black Arkansas State Trooper in 1993. He was executed on April 19, 1995, a few hours after the Oklahoma City bombing. The relationship between CSA, Elohim City, and other Arkansas-based white separatist groups and the Oklahoma City Bombing has never been fully investigated or explained despite the presence of FBI, ATF, and CIA informants at all of the sites.
See the 60 Minutes interview with Timothy McVeigh, originally aired on March 12, 2000, or the Ted Kaczynski Papers at the University of Michigan’s Labadie Collection, 2000–1 →. “Bombers Row” is a nickname for a cell block at ADX Florence, a supermax prison in Colorado once known for holding a number of notable terrorists.
Not his real name.
