Hello friends. Welcome to tired boy hours. These hours are all day every day for me, although they might not be that way for you. Either way, I hope this post finds you comfortably enjoying a cool, refreshing glass of chocolate milk (affectionately known as time-travel juice).
I found something very interesting in the first chapter of the book. Already it seems that they have almost automatically numbed themselves. Levi says "It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottomless despair, both during the journey and after" (pg. 17). This and various other aspects of the emotional state within the crew of new arrivals struck me as odd. They had grieved the night before the departure, and now they were all quiet. Obedient, orderly. As if they had already accepted their fate. They were helpless, and it was their fault. You may be offended by reading this, but I sit here in a sort of absurd shock. I feel as if I would've at least tried to do something about my situation, but these people did absolutely nothing but accept oncoming death, whether it would happen or not. This book already has me slightly shook at this fact alone.
I leave you with a question-- Could the Jewish ethnicity have an emotional immunity to trials, torture and suffering?
That was just something that kind of crossed my mind while reading this passage. Until next time, friends.
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I found something very interesting in the first chapter of the book. Already it seems that they have almost automatically numbed themselves. Levi says "It was the very discomfort, the blows, the cold, the thirst that kept us aloft in the void of bottomless despair, both during the journey and after" (pg. 17). This and various other aspects of the emotional state within the crew of new arrivals struck me as odd. They had grieved the night before the departure, and now they were all quiet. Obedient, orderly. As if they had already accepted their fate. They were helpless, and it was their fault. You may be offended by reading this, but I sit here in a sort of absurd shock. I feel as if I would've at least tried to do something about my situation, but these people did absolutely nothing but accept oncoming death, whether it would happen or not. This book already has me slightly shook at this fact alone.
I leave you with a question-- Could the Jewish ethnicity have an emotional immunity to trials, torture and suffering?
That was just something that kind of crossed my mind while reading this passage. Until next time, friends.
I commented on Spencer and Josh's posts.
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