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disability lack of assurance

The central disability for most writers of history, as of poetry, drama, and fiction, is probably bewilderment and anxiety in the loss of old landmarks , and the overturn of long-accepted truths. They are stunned by the rapidity, multiplicity, and … Continue reading

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when the noble run free

The Enlightenment. It has become an ordinary and familiar thing; like a Marcel Duchamp sculpture, what was once subversive and novel, the quarrel with Christianity and that people of different religious affiliations could live peacefully together, has now become an … Continue reading

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tin drum solo: private concert

Trivialities and profound truths. This spit and spat match with Gunter Grass can be seen as using Israel and Jews as a pretext for his own bashing of a new Germany, one remarkably different than his own version, which has … Continue reading

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