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[Monte Davis]

> Better documentation ...

Yep -- and he doesn't seem to have *had* that complex, reflective, or
interesting an internal life.
I have a very different take on the weight and significance of his evil than
Rich does, but maybe what applies here is what Hannah Arendt meant by "the
banality of evil."

At some level, we really want the character of an Eichmann or von Braun to
have been rich enough to "contain" all the historical and moral context and
implication surrounding it, but very often that just isn't so. What he did,
what made it possible, and what we learn (or don't learn) from those are
much more interesting than the kind of person he was, or what he thought and
felt about what he was doing.   

Frustrating, perhaps, but there it is.