#BookReport
Finally finished Kristen Lavransdatter! It was slow going as my attention span this year has mostly been that of a gnat but I enjoyed it. Also enjoyed Josephine Baker‘s memoir. What an incredibly fascinating woman!
The format of What We Knew was interesting. The individual sections held my interest more than the rest but that is me not the book.
Caught up on buddy reads except the Picasso which I will read today.
“But I really don‘t trust them [Germans]….
#Magic!onday
I won‘t win the farthest travel distance so am jumping on the time travel train.
Here is the book proof for our travel back to Hitler and fascism. I‘m only part way into it but the parallels are there for all to see and understand if you‘d only care enough to open your eyes a bit to the relentless propaganda.
pickOne of the best books I‘ve read - I don‘t have the ability to summarise the vast range of reasons as to why that is the case. From his amusing third person narration obvious obliviousness to character hypocrisies to the book‘s relevance to today in many ways than you‘d think. I am in awe. I wish I could read it for the first time again.
What do men want from me? Why do they pursue me? Why are they so hard? All I am is a perfectly ordinary actor…
“Perhaps you will be more indulgent in death, poor child, than a hard life allowed you to be…For your destiny was accomplished. The end came fast…you summoned it. If it had been otherwise, perhaps you would have gathered around yourself other youths - even more ignorant and younger than you were - and played being conspiratoes with them.”
“He was a blond Rhinelander. His father, too, had been a blond Rhinelander before the financial worries had turned him gray. And his mother Bella his sister Josy were impeccably blond Rhineland women. ‘I am a blond Rhinelander‘ exulted Hendrik Höfgen..It was in the best spirits that he went to bed.”
“The attempt to hand over the Germa people to fascism could end in the socialist revolution…then everyone would see that the actor Höfgen had hambled with cunning and foresight. But even if the N@zis remained in power, what had he, Höfgen, to fear from them?…he wasn‘t a Jew. The fact above all others-that he was not a Jew- struck Hendrick…as immensely comforting. He wasn‘t a Jew, and so everything could be forgiven in him…” continued on the next 1
About Dora Martin, who was a Jewish actress, moving to the US: “”Nothing will change here where you‘re concerned…You are loved by thousands of people…the theater will stay in business…whatever happens in Germany.”…”Well I wish you all the best, Hendrik…I have nothing to look for here…but things will certainly go well fir you, Hendrik Höfgen-whatever else happens in Germany.”
