Yom Ha’Shoah · 19 April 2001
My God it’s good to see Ftrain back. Writing from Israel, Paul Ford files another luminous essay soaked with unanswerable arguments and rage, for Holocaust Memorial Day:
So here you are. As a Gentile of German blood, I can give you 1000 words of Holocaust and there are billions of other words still waiting, patiently, swirling like atoms of gas. In the Holocaust 1/3 of all Jews died. 1/3 of the world is land; 2/3 of the world is water. It took away all that was solid and left us always swimming. There will always be more swimming to do.
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