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“Some 18 months before the nazis came to power in Germany my Zionist grandfather was so blinded by despair of the antisemitism in Vilna that he even applied for German citizenship. Fortunately for us he was turned down by Germany too”

And so the Jews in love with Europe, speaking a dozen of European languages, earning to belong - immigrated almost against their will to “asiatic” Jerusalem

“I’ve known bolsheviks since they were pimping on the harbour of Odessa… The whole of the Bolshevism is just gigantic bluff…”

«Ну вот…»

“All these new finagled bombs of theirs are in the hands of Jewish scientists and they are bound to know what to do and what not to do”

„He has not budged from this view of communists even 50 years after the revolution“

(Riffraffs with smelly socks, Jews of a sorts, anyone whose apartment or girlfriend they fancied - piff puff, the bottom of the pot…)

Как внуки-израильтяне должны воспринимать своих дедов из России)

Raise a race proud, generous and tough

“Jews, go home to Palestine”.
50y later: “Jews, get out of Palestine”

Cats’ names: Chopin and Schopenhauer

Father’s reaction on the boy’s arranging his books by height - “they are not soldiers”

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Yack

Why is he giving me a strong feeling that R&P are stuck in the past? Like basically still reading and enjoying these 15-20 y.o. essays without realising it’s the past?

Bloody know how to structure an essay :)

Ups and downs now

Ha, how wrong he is about Harry!

Redeemed.
Obvs a well loved quote (didn’t fit, added to notes).

Yack. Skipped that :-/

Can it be that I like the anger and sarcasm in him? Damn, woman, just read the bloody book and stop analysing the author (I won’t)

Def can anticipate future scandals from the way he is phrasing his thoughts but the brutal honesty is very appealing. Curious about what I will think by the end of the book

Some melancholy (loving England) and he is starting to feel like the closest author by miles in a while. Hmm….