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‘Separatism’, Babar wrote, ‘is the belief that you are good enough to escape from the clutches of hell.’

where he was
obliged to
regard the human condition without a trace of pity, without a single
possibility of any way back to life, because by then he would know for
certain
that all his life he had been playing with cheaters who had marked
the cards and
who would, in the end, strip him even of his last means of
defense, of that hope
of someday finding his way back home.

and he saw himself nailed
to the cross of his own
cradle and coffin, painfully trying to tear his body
away, only, eventually, to
deliver himself — utterly naked, without identifying
mark, stripped down to
essentials — into the care of the people whose duty it
was to wash the
corpses, people obeying an order snapped out in the dry air
against a
background loud with torturers and flayers of skin,

The soul of a man dies long before his flesh rots. This is obvious because the flesh can rot only after the soul leaves the body. But the general has been dead for a while. His heart faintly beats as his body shrinks but he has died.

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According to the testimony of an officer in the British Legion, he had outlandish appearance of an exotic Vagabon guerrilla, the helmet of Russian dragoon, A mule drivers, espadrilles, …..er of ….on a motto letters of blood, “liberty, or death”

“The time he has left, will hardly be enough for him to reach his grave”

Vegetable matter 🤣

Comparing whisper with mountain torrents

He realised that he slipped the poison as an apology to his people, his way of being admitted to the lot of the murderers- whom he thought were all different and inferior- now he a part of that lot

The metaphor of the boy with glasses and bad eyesight refers to the people of Jakub’s country. Their mannerism, their corruption or habits- what Jakub calls- murderers- it’s something inherent. They were born with it like the boy was born with bad eyesight. The real high mindedness would be to love the people even thought they are “murderers”

Jakub realised that it was pride that had kept him from loving his country, his pride in nobility, pride in high mindedness, pride that made him dislike his kind as he saw them as murderers. And as he realised that he slipped poison, his illusion was broken- he himself was a murderer, no different that his own countrymen. Pride reduced to dust. He became one of them

Bertlef said - greed is the expression of a perverted love of life.

The poison tablet is like the gospel for Jakub

Women mucus dictating his life- but he rebels by not giving women his soul

Anthropomorphised barrel of vinegar!!!

“She was filled to the brim with not knowing.”

Klima’s wife believes in her husband’s infidelity like a Christian who believes in the existence of god but at the same time is aware that he will remain unseen. So if klima sees the woman with whom her husband is involved, it will be devastating and surprising even if she knew certainly that her husband was cheating on her.

The old fat women and their body- their shamelessness is an attack on female nudity, they are aware of the lack of seductive powers of their respective bodies and so they try to mock female nakedness.