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In a cloud of smoke, before the children became ashes, he screams into the gray clouds, “Where are the ambulances?! Where are the Jews!?”

“We do not see our hand in what happens, so we call certain events melancholy accidents when they are the inevitabilities of our projects, and we call other events necessities merely because we will not change our minds.” —Stanley Cavell