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That’s just how it is with history. You do things and later on when people see what you did, it looks bad. The only exception is if you get to defend yourself, but mostly you don’t. History is just people behaving badly.
If you don’t like fire, you are not a living person, in my opinion.
Barbarian in the Garden, by Zbigniew Herbert, that was my book, and there is no way they were ready to appreciate it. You have to read probably five hundred books before you can read that one.
When I think about what my future holds, it is a bit like looking into the sun. I flinch away, or I don’t and my eyes get burned down a bit, like candles, and then I can’t see for a while.
It is just that people have so little acumen these days—they don’t even know what dignity looks like.
That whole part of my life is growing darker, and I know that it will never get more light. That’s what the world is—we pass beyond things, and they grow dark to us, and one day we can no longer see them, not even the outlines.
