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"Wow. Hans is having such an intense time! and Mann is really weaving all his elements together in a tight web of signification. And I get to feel like a genius because I think I’m catching some of what he’s up to, as it happens, and pat myself on the back when he takes another step along the path I noticed." Feb 27, 2026 07:33AM

 
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“Verdi or Wagner?” said the voice from the other side of the screen. “Both,” Father Arguedas said, but when he recovered himself from the surprise of the question he changed his answer. “Verdi.” “You are young,” the voice replied. “Come ...more
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“For a moment she looked into Porgy's face. It told her nothing, except that he seemed suddenly to have grown older, and that the real Porgy, who had looked out at her from the eyes for a little while, had gone back into his secret places and closed the door.”
DuBose Heyward, Porgy

Milton Sanford Mayer
“But the one great shocking occasion, when tens or hundreds or thousands will join with you, never comes. That’s the difficulty. If the last and worst act of the whole regime had come immediately after the first and smallest, thousands, yes, millions would have been sufficiently shocked—if, let us say, the gassing of the Jews in ’43 had come immediately after the ‘German Firm’ stickers on the windows of non-Jewish shops in ’33. But of course this isn’t the way it happens. In between come all the hundreds of little steps, some of them imperceptible, each of them preparing you not to be shocked by the next. Step C is not so much worse than Step B, and, if you did not make a stand at Step B, why should you at Step C? And so on to Step D.

And one day, too late, your principles, if you were ever sensible of them, all rush in upon you. The burden of self-deception has grown too heavy, and some minor incident, in my case my little boy, hardly more than a baby, saying ‘Jewish swine,’ collapses it all at once, and you see that everything, everything, has changed and changed completely under your nose. The world you live in—your nation, your people—is not the world you were born in at all. The forms are all there, all untouched, all reassuring, the houses, the shops, the jobs, the mealtimes, the visits, the concerts, the cinema, the holidays. But the spirit, which you never noticed because you made the lifelong mistake of identifying it with the forms, is changed. Now you live in a world of hate and fear, and the people who hate and fear do not even know it themselves; when everyone is transformed, no one is transformed. Now you live in a system which rules without responsibility even to God. The system itself could not have intended this in the beginning, but in order to sustain itself it was compelled to go all the way.”
Milton Sanford Mayer, They Thought They Were Free: The Germans 1933-45

E.L. Konigsburg
“...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia”
E L Konigsburg, 天使雕像

A.S. Byatt
“Metamorphoses" he said, "are our way of showing, in riddles, that we know we are part of the animal world”
A.S. Byatt, Possession

A.S. Byatt
“Still deeper the meaning of that story of Narcissus, who because he could not grasp the tormenting, mild image he saw in the fountain, plunged into it and was drowned. But that same image we ourselves see in all rivers and oceans. It is the image of the ungraspable phantom of life; and this is the key to it all.

Narcissism, the unstable self, the fractured ego, Maud thought, who am I? A matrix for a susurration of texts and codes?It was both a pleasant and an unpleasant idea, this requirement that she think of herself as intermittent and partial. There was the question of the awkward body. The skin, the breath, the eyes, the hair, their history, which did seem to exist.”
A.S. Byatt, Possession

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