Answer:
Baldwin talks of a "disease" which afflicts black Americans and can wreck race relations and creating a "rage in the blood" so he is using the "disease" as a metaphor for probably the rage that black Americans have for experiencing the inequalities of life in the US especially in the 1960's when the civil rights movement was so strong and segregation was so strongly practiced in the South still.
Explanation:
Beowulf recognizes he is losing when the dragon melts his shield; that said, he continues the fight anyway.
Time passes quickly.It is a way how things move, it depends if your bored then you feel like time is going to slow and when your having fun it's like wow already!
