Surrender
“A story line is everything.” – Bono, Surrender: 40 Songs, One Story.
There’s this one meandering section that describes a new understanding of his political activism, his meeting with Nelson Mandela, and how his knowledge of Ireland and its oppressed history informed his views.
And therein, there’s Bono’s retelling of Mandela’s response to his query about how he survived his 27 years imprisoned. “The answer, he told me, was to be found in reading.” {Check out the images below to read the whole thing.}
How’d Bono tie up all the strands dangling in this chapter? Well, a story line is everything…
{Hey, I know he can be a lightning rod, but as he says…the story line is everything…}
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