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I have read quite a lot of Holocaust literature. The subject fascinates me, as it reveals some of the worst and best aspects of human behaviour. Currently, I am reading Jozcef Debreczeni’s Cold Crematorium. Written just after the war by a Hungarian journalist who lived in Vojvodina, now part of Serbia. The book was largely […]

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Cancer 170

How many emotions and viewpoints can a person hold at one go? I am both optimistic about life and pessimistic. I feel my health is reasonably good and terribly bad. I am in pain and I am not in pain. I look forward to the future and there is no future. Orwell was right in […]

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