Joined: Fri May 13, 2005 10:39 am Posts: 10 Location: Kingsport TN
Gary--
Vince Singleton here.
Can't keep up with all the boards anymore, not in my doddering old age!
Wow. Yesterday I dug out my copy of Monteleone's Night of the Broken Souls and read 100 pages. Captivating. Brutal.
Seems one way to get a grasp on the enormity of the Holocaust is fiction. Eli Weisel's Night, Glen Hirshberg's "Dancing Men," J.R. Dunn's Days of Pain, King's "Apt Pupil," many others. How else?
Read Arendt, Levi, et al., of course. But it seems fiction can perform a task beyond even the brutal factual accounts and the analysis of how that nightmare could ever have occurred.
But what do I know?
Did you ever see the documentary about the mostly-white high school that collected paperclips, the intent to amass 6 million and thus gain insight into just how many Jews were slaughtered in the death camps? One helluva fine documentary.
Few things frighten me so much as a Neo-Nazi skinhead declaiming the Holocaust never occurred. Santayana is right. But who said, "History never repeats itself. Men always do."?
Prejudice is based on fear and ignorancce. And it is always learned.
I better shut up.
Hey! to Lucy.
Your friend and fan,
Vince
& Cornzilla
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