Sunday, July 07, 2013

Kapuściński; von Rezzori

“Of all men’s miseries the bitterest is this: to know so much and to have control over nothing. Herodotus, The Histories.
Read straight through Ryszard Kapuściński Travels with Herodotus; started rereading Gregor von Rezzori's Memoirs of an Anti-Semite. I had almost forgotten how much I love them, and why... I'm a grandchild of Mittel Europa destroyed in 1914.

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