Compassion has no place in the natural order of the world which operates on the basis of necessity. Compassion opposes this order and is therefore best thought of as being in some way supernatural.

had been an infantry officer on the western front during the First World War. His recent novels include To the Wedding a love story dealing with the AIDS crisis stemming from his own familial experience and King: A Street Story a novel on homeless and shantytown life told from the perspective of a street dog. Berger O.

John Peter Berger (born 5 November 1926) is an English art critic novelist painter and poet. His novel G.