Barbara Blau’s Reviews > The Plague > Status Update

when war breaks out people say, ‘it won’t last it’s too stupid’. And war is certainly too stupid, but that doesn’t prevent it from lasting”. Stupidity always Carries doggedly on, as people would notice if they were not always thinking about themselves; in other words, they were humanists: they did not believe in pestilence. A pestilence does not have human dimensions so ppl tell themselves it is unreal