“And about Hitler‘s Germany he felt that one must be very true. And the reason one needed to be very true was that the thing in it which every decent person must be against was false. You could not turn the other cheek to wrong, but also, it seemed to him, you could not be wrong about wrong. You had to be right about it. You could not meet lies and trickery with lies and trickery, although there were some people who argued that you should.” 👇🏻
Lcsmcat Two things struck me here. First, Wolfe died before the start of WWII, much less our entry into it. And second, why have we still not learned this lesson! I‘m finding so much in these last 100 pages. #wolfereads 5y
Tamra @Lcsmcat 😑 5y
Graywacke @Lcsmcat ( @Tamra ) 😐 Lies and trickery all the way down, so it sometimes seems 5y
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