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Michelle
Moderator
Babbler # 560
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posted 18 June 2002 08:16 PM
A tiny book, probably about 30 pages long, back when I was around 11 or 12 years old. It was called, "This is the way the world will end. This is the way you will end. Unless..."It was all about the threat of nuclear war. My parents probably picked it up somewhere or had it given to them. It had pictures of black cartoon skulls all over the front, with a rainbow of colours as background denoting an explosion. And it went into minute detail about the stockpile of nuclear weapons, what they can do, what exactly will happen if one of them explodes, how many of them the US and the USSR had, and the volatility of the political situation at the time. It scared me shitless. I remember it like it was yesterday, I can still picture the cover of the book. I don't think my parents really thought much about the book lying around because they figured it wouldn't interest me. I felt physically sick after reading it and had nervous stomach for days.
From: I've got a fever, and the only prescription is more cowbell. | Registered: May 2001
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Zatamon
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Babbler # 1394
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posted 21 June 2002 07:58 PM
"One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich" by Alexander Solzhenitsyn A day in hell described as a 'reasonable' and 'ordinary' day by an inmate in a Russian concentration camp. The horror was the matter of factness of the nerration by someone, who 'adapted'. It was a mind-shattering warning for me -- BEWARE, we can get used to ***anything***.
From: where hope for 'hope' is contemplated | Registered: Sep 2001
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Zatamon
rabble-rouser
Babbler # 1394
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posted 16 July 2002 04:05 PM
Has anyone read the French writer Robert Merle's novel, "Death is My Profession," based on the life of Rudolph Hoess, the last and most murderous Nazi Commandent at Auschwitz?It is the most chilling description of an evil mind. He does not have a sadistic enjoyment of other people’s pain and death. He is a responsible, upstanding family man, just doing his ‘job’ the best way he can. He is a man with a total lack of compassion and empathy. Human beings for him are just as many stepping stones to enable him reach his goals. He doesn’t hate them – he just doesn’t see them. The most shocking part of the book was when he was forced to admit to himself and to his wife that he would gas their own child if Hitler ordered it. [ July 16, 2002: Message edited by: Zatamon ]
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