The Warrior

The War Doctor :

How could she ever hate Them 

for what was at bottom merely 

their weakness? She would 

probably have done things 

like those that had befallen her 

if she had lived in one of these 

houses. To measure Them by 

her own yardstick, 

as Her Father put it. 

Would she not, in all honesty, 

have done the same as 

Chuck and Vera and Ben 

and Mrs Henson and Tom and 

all these people in their houses?

Grace paused and as she did, 

The Clouds scattered and 

let The Moonlight through —

“…. and Dogville underwent 

another of those little changes of Light; 

It was as if The Light, previously so merciful and faint 

finally refused to cover-up for The Town any longer.

Suddenly, you could no-longer imagine A Berry that 

would have appeared one day on a gooseberry bush 

but only see The Thorn that was there right now …

The Light now 

penetrated every unevenness 

and flaw in The Buildings…. 

and in The People.

And all of a sudden, 

She knew The Answer 

to Her Question ALL Too Well —

If She had acted like Them, 

She could not have defended 

a single one of her actions and 

could not have condemned them 

harshly enough — it was as if her 

sorrow and pain finally assumed 

their rightful place —

No — What They Had Done 

was NOT good enough, and if 

one had The Power to put it 

to rights, it was one's Duty to 

Do so,for the sake of other towns, 

for the sake of Humanity and not least 

for the sake of The Human Being that 

was Grace-Herself --