Thanks Ren for heads up for this astonishing essay in LRB. It should be mandatory reading everywhere! Leni's Last Lament sounds hilarious - and timely too. Hope she brings it to LA.
They will be the last to forget the Shoah -- they can see that the rest of the world already has -- but a human lifespan is a human lifespan, and no memory can now last longer. Contrast our Founders, for whom the English Civil War was so present that it may as well have happened that very morning.
Thanks Ren for heads up for this astonishing essay in LRB. It should be mandatory reading everywhere! Leni's Last Lament sounds hilarious - and timely too. Hope she brings it to LA.
They will be the last to forget the Shoah -- they can see that the rest of the world already has -- but a human lifespan is a human lifespan, and no memory can now last longer. Contrast our Founders, for whom the English Civil War was so present that it may as well have happened that very morning.