How can Butler Shaffer write this great anti-conflationist book and then turn around and say this? Grumble grumble gripe gripe ….
Archive | February 17, 2010
Hier Ist Kein Warum
When Primo Levi, as a newly arrived prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp, reached for an icicle to quench his desperate thirst, a guard knocked the icicle out of his hand. To Levi’s question “Warum?” (“Why?”), the guard replied with what was destined to become a famous quote: “Hier ist kein Warum” (“Here there is no why”).
Gosh, don’t it make you glad to live in a free country?
The Blood Bank
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