[b]Bernhard Schlink
To me it was obvious that experimental literature was experimenting on the reader, and Hanna didn’t need that and neither did I.[/b]
I’m with them here.
The value of being brave, working hard, saving money keeping order depends on what it’s for.
On the other hand, isn’t everything?
I wanted reality to drive out the clichés.
Or at last come up with new ones.
All survivor literature talks about this numbness, in which life’s functions are reduced to minimum, behavior becomes completely selfish and indifferent to others, and gassing and burning are everyday occurences. In the rare accounts by perpetrators , too, the gas chambers and ovens become ordinary scenary, the perpetrators reduced to their few functions and exhibiting a mental paralysis and indifference, a dullness that makes them seem drugged or drunk.
Fortunately, I can’t even imagine it.
I did not know that children think the hard questions they ask are easy and thus expect easy answers to them, and that they are disappointed when they get cautious, complex answers.
And then some grow up to be Kids.
Don’t they?
When an airplane’s engines fail, it is not the end of the flight.
If you know what he means.