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People like Kawka really are candles in the dark.

Oof. I feel you there, Artie.

I feel so bad for Mala, perhaps because her present suffering is so much easier to comprehend than the horrors that pervade so much of this book, though she too carried the weight of that trauma.

The bit with the wooden blocks was another thing that stuck in my memory from 2 decades ago.

OH GOD.
I’d somehow forgotten/repressed this part…

And there it is, an image/historical reality so hideous that when I first read this 20ish years ago it seared into my brain like an atomic flash.