I'm getting to it now because I couldn't shoulder the guilt — my hard-to-please wife is among its importuning admirers — for another day.
And when the worst happens, when the threshold of harm to self and others is irreparably crossed, it is the families and friends who shoulder the guilt.
In Germany and France, far-right politicians rage against having to shoulder the guilt of the Holocaust more than half a century after the end of World War II.
We feel a kind of sympathy for Gov. Hearnes, of Miss ourie, uneasily shouldering the guilt for the shooting of 2000 purple martins a couple of weeks ago.
By Julie Hayden The New Yorker, September 9 , 1967P. 35 We feel a kind of sympathy for Gov. Hearnes, of Miss ourie, uneasily shouldering the guilt for the shooting of 2000 purple martins a couple of weeks ago.
The New Yorker, September 9 , 1967P. 35 We feel a kind of sympathy for Gov. Hearnes, of Miss ourie, uneasily shouldering the guilt for the shooting of 2000 purple martins a couple of weeks ago.
The final language was brokered by European diplomats, many of them from former slaving nations, who shouldered the guilt of their grandfathers to find language that might restore dignity to the descendants of the enslaved.
That night by the B&B reading lamp, terrible events have driven Alejandra from Cole, and he shoulders the guilt of having been forced to kill to survive and he rides across the mesa.
It isn't just the thud of the insultingly self-evident: "In the end, I think you either cheat or you don't," or the over-obvious emotional arithmetic: an unmarried lover shoulders the guilt more easily "because he is betraying a stranger rather than the person to whom he gave a lifelong vow".
Even as I type these words at Terminal One at Kennedy, or in a plane at 35,000 feet, I wonder if the Moroccan Muslim next to me can read over my shoulder, noticing the guilt follows me, even at altitude.
I feel the full weight of all that falls on my shoulders, followed by all of the guilt that I don't love it every day.
