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The introduction to this is maybe the best consideration of post-war American politics in history I can imagine being articulated. What a read, days after the Louisiana decision. What a read, in an era where the erosion of reverence for the presidency, where the rise of the credibility gap and all that means for patriotism, nationhood, history and pride stand starker than ever.

A grief filled little mystery - one foot in each stream.

I’ve just read “Half an Autumn” for the third time, on the plane, and I need to rip it out of the book and hand the pages to someone else, to someone I want to love better, or I need to learn how to memorize someone else’s language, I need to ask the pilot to turn the plane around to fly home (to fly where?) to fly to Germany so I can match the translation in my head to the page, I need to read it again