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“there’s nothing to
discuss
there’s nothing to
remember
there’s nothing to
forget
it’s sad
and
it’s not
sad
seems the
most sensible
thing
a person can
do
is
sit
with drink in
hand
as the walls
wave
their goodbye
smiles
one comes through
it
all
with a certain
amount of
efficiency and
bravery
then
leaves
some accept
the possibility of
God
to help them
get
through
others
take it
straight on
and to these
I drink
tonight.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
discuss
there’s nothing to
remember
there’s nothing to
forget
it’s sad
and
it’s not
sad
seems the
most sensible
thing
a person can
do
is
sit
with drink in
hand
as the walls
wave
their goodbye
smiles
one comes through
it
all
with a certain
amount of
efficiency and
bravery
then
leaves
some accept
the possibility of
God
to help them
get
through
others
take it
straight on
and to these
I drink
tonight.”
― You Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense
“All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“Citizens of modernity, consumers of violence as spectacle, adepts of proximity without risk, are schooled to be cynical about the possibility of sincerity. Some people will do anything to keep themselves from being moved.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
“C’est alors que tout a vacillé. La mer a charrié
un souffle épais et ardent. Il m’a semblé que le ciel s’ouvrait sur
toute son étendue pour laisser pleuvoir du feu. Tout mon être
s’est tendu et j’ai crispé ma main sur le revolver. La gâchette a
cédé, j’ai touché le ventre poli de la crosse et c’est là, dans le
bruit à la fois sec et assourdissant, que tout a commencé. J’ai
secoué la sueur et le soleil. J’ai compris que j’avais détruit
l’équilibre du jour, le silence exceptionnel d’une plage où j’avais
été heureux. Alors, j’ai tiré encore quatre fois sur un corps inerte où les balles s’enfonçaient sans qu’il y parût. Et c’était comme
quatre coups brefs que je frappais sur la porte du malheur”
― The Stranger
un souffle épais et ardent. Il m’a semblé que le ciel s’ouvrait sur
toute son étendue pour laisser pleuvoir du feu. Tout mon être
s’est tendu et j’ai crispé ma main sur le revolver. La gâchette a
cédé, j’ai touché le ventre poli de la crosse et c’est là, dans le
bruit à la fois sec et assourdissant, que tout a commencé. J’ai
secoué la sueur et le soleil. J’ai compris que j’avais détruit
l’équilibre du jour, le silence exceptionnel d’une plage où j’avais
été heureux. Alors, j’ai tiré encore quatre fois sur un corps inerte où les balles s’enfonçaient sans qu’il y parût. Et c’était comme
quatre coups brefs que je frappais sur la porte du malheur”
― The Stranger
“We" - this "we" is everyone who has never experienced anything like what they went through - don't understand. We don't get it. We truly can't imagine what it was like. We can't imagine how dreadful, how terrifying war is; and how normal it becomes. Can't understand, can't imagine. That's what every soldier, and every journalist and aid worker and independent observer who has put in time under fire, and had the luck to elude the death that struck down others nearby, stubbornly feels. And they are right.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
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