Kennedy Plaza and Jack London's book " People of the Abyss "

Kennedy Plaza Providence is daily a scene right out of Jack London's bleak book " People of the Abyss " . I witnessed this man taken into the ambulance fall on his head from a sitting position inside the RIPTA bus shelter. He looked to be in a drugged or drunken stupor. A crazed woman was alarmed and , I think , called 911. The crazed woman complained about the loud " Jesus " street preacher across the plaza heard on an annoying bull horn . " HELL FIRE IS WAITING FOR ALL YOU SINNERS ! " If the famous Providence , Rhode Island horror writer H.P. Lovecraft were alive today, he would find inspiration for a " Horror at Red Hook " story just waiting for a bus in Kennedy Plaza. The masses of LIVING DEAD are only capable of making a notable DISTURBANCE . By themselves they will never change anything - not five , not fifty years from now . " If there is hope it lies in the proles " , writes Winston Smith in George Orwell 's " 1984 ". But which proles ?