Ethical Diversions

MalignD at aol.com MalignD at aol.com
Thu Jun 22 16:33:35 CDT 2006


<< Were I a young non-Jew with an eye for literary immortality, I would push 
the things I did not understand deep into the background and let them lurk, 
ominously, while slight indicators based upon facts I knew to be correct pointed 
to the realms I was afraid or unfit to explore. >>

Yes.  Rather nicely put elaboration of my point, which is that P's choice 
around how to deal with the Holocaust was first a practical--or 
extraliterary--one, second a literary one.



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