Status Updates From Dunkelblum

“Sometimes, very rarely, a tiny, individual decision is enough to steer history in a different direction. But only in the rarest of cases does someone have enough of an overview to still be able, later on, to identify other potential versions, and to see logical consequences beyond the ones that became fact.”

“That's how memory works: everything seems to be gone, echoing emptiness, a deep, dark expanse, but if you feel your way around, you find gossamer-thin threads that do have something attached to them if you give them a tug.”

Unterbrochen vor 4 Jahren mit dem Eintrag: Leider musste ich das Buch an die Bücherei zurückgeben, weil vorbestellt. Ich werde es aber baldmöglichst zu Ende lesen.
Seit einiger Zeit besitze ich das Buch, mit dem Weiterlesen hat es aber erst jetzt geklappt, dank einer Challenge in der Mitlesezentrale.

“In any event, we must accept that, in some rare cases, inauspicious circumstances and distinctly bad inclinations coincide to create a person who is like a loaded gun. Where later, however closely you look, it is impossible to identify any point when their life could have taken a different direction — no moment's pause, no fork in the road — that would have led, if not to virtue, then at least to less

“THE QUESTION OF WHETHER there is really such a thing as evil, in a pure, self sustaining form, is antiquated, quasi-religious, and serves no useful purpose. Everything can be explained: by childhood, por-erty; and, in particular, by the violence a person has suffered, which really does, as the Bible says, keep on begetting itself.”