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At the Washington Post, Jim Hoagland has a column on Gunter Grass<\/a>, while George Will writes about the Japanese shrine to war-dead<\/a>, which drives China into a tizzy.<\/p>\n

It’s interesting, how we can’t bear to forget and we can’t bear to remember.<\/p>\n

Here’s Hitchens reviewing a book about the moral issues of firebombing Hamburg, Dresden, Wurzbeg and other German cities<\/a> during the war.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, I just finished re-reading Gravity’s Rainbow, which is (in part) about the German rocket bombardments of England. And behavioral science, organic chemistry, kaballah, Argentine politics, the afterlife, zoot suits, pinball, cinema, the tarot, Nixon, and the respective extinctions of the dodos and the Hereros. I’m still juggling and re-parsing What Went On.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Washington Post, Jim Hoagland has a column on Gunter Grass, while George Will writes about the Japanese shrine to war-dead, which drives China into a tizzy. It’s interesting, how we can’t bear to forget and we can’t bear to remember. Here’s Hitchens reviewing a book about the moral issues of firebombing Hamburg, Dresden, … <\/p>\n

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