Tuesday, March 14, 2017

the muselmanner, the drowned

photo by Eric Schwab

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They crowd my memory with their faceless presences, and if I could enclose all the evil of our time in one image, I would choose this image which is familiar to me:  an emaciated man, with head dropped and shoulders curved, on whose face and in whose eyes not a trace of a thought is to be seen.

Primo Levi
Survival in Auschwitz

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