It is so good to hear from you, Karin! I miss you out there in cyberspace!
So much to think about, as always with your comments. I think I will focus on the one that just struck me (coincidence, serendipity) yesterday. Here are all these horrors in the past that you mention. I especially think of the railway station in Madrid because we were there several years afterward, looking at it, and couldn’t help imagining that terrible scene.
So why a huge outpouring now? And I agree with you, I do think it is — especially in Paris — what Voltaire said. I very much hope that the outpouring contains something of lasting value, beyond the daily newspapers. You saw Patti Kuche’s comment? Just before yours. It mingles hope with a dark outlook. Very much how I feel. As you quote in German, I guess we do keep clinging to hope, no matter what —-
Hope for me really consists of wonderful people in the world who contradict such awfulness, people like you and my blogging friends. I send my best wishes to you as well — alles gute, Karin!
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