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We, the Neocrats, forgot Dresden. Forgot to mention charred lives in razed baroque. My Grandfather navigated one of the Lancasters, I haven’t asked him much about it… I feel like reading Slaughterhouse 5 again, remembering it made a big impression on me back then. (I woke up with an image in my head, so here it is.)
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i love you nemodreamer
Thank you, Hymie.
One day, I’ll have to write a long boring post on how German should be adopted as the universal secondary language. It is just so wonderful. “Streichholzschachtel”: “little box that holds wood that you can strike”: “matchbox”! Sometimes, you can even pack a whole paragraph into a single word…
They call these “coathanger words” in french, where it’s rare to have a word built out of 2 or more other ones. French requires so much flipping vocabulary!
Enough.
You should speak to your grandfather about it. Understanding of that generation’s experiences of war and its consequences is crucial to humanity’s growth and ability to learn lessons from its past.
NemoDreamer - Saleem will tell you that the appropriate response round these parts is “Namaste”
Mogogo, don’t you slap me in the face with blog-etiquette! And I won’t contribute to that words high cloud-ranking :)
Thank you, electra. Especially now that I can phone him for the price of a local call… It’s hard to cross the comfort-threshold with a family-member you only see rarely (different islands…)
Maybe not a good subject for a phone-conversation either… :(
But it’s in the back of my mind. My wonderful Grandmother has advanced Alzheimer, but can recall childhood memories without a problem. She just doesn’t know who her husband or children are……. It is our obligation to perpetuate family memory, especially if that memory is part of the greater cultural heritage.
What are you saying? “Namaste” isn’t in the cloud at all.
true that.
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Man, sometimes I can be so overly dramatic… What I wanted to say was that the fire-bombing was a world-changing moment, a scar in our historical conscience. And yet we let it slip past and don’t think about it’s relevance today… or at least not on the Neocrats, where I expected it to pop up in a post by one much wiser than I. Also how does my grandfather feel about it now, and why haven’t I ever asked him? Is it fair to bring it up with him?