Status Updates From Die Vierzig Tage des Musa Dagh

The passing of Krikor:

“His pain came back in waves.”

“And then the apothecary’s books rendered him a last unique service - the read, the unread, the skimmed-through, the beloved. He stuck his burning hands into the leaves. Their pages were as cool as water. And more than that. A thin icy peace came streaming into him from the actual life-blood of these books…then the burning died throb by throb.”

“Every man and every nation at one time or another becomes the ‘weak’. That’s why nobody should tolerate persecution, let alone extermination, as a precedent.”