] Chaos had advanced. The kitchen was a shambles of broken ] glass and china. The dining-room was stripped of parquet, ] the skirting was up, the door had been taken off its ] hinges, and the destroyers had moved up a floor. Streaks ] of light came in through the closed shutters where they ] worked with the seriousness of creators - and ] destruction after all is a form of creation. A kind of ] imagination had seen this house as it had now become. Graham Greene; The Destructors |