Sublime

Primo Levi, who wrote about his survival at Auschwitz, described Elias, a dwarf who was interned in the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War II. He was enormously strong, bestial, and quite insane, and with those qualities he not only navigated the Auschwitz system, where so many died all around him, but actually thrived. He ate, stole, an

Le plus triste avec les personnes qui s’en vont de la tête est qu’on ne sait pas combien ça va durer. Le docteur Katz m’avait dit que le record du monde, c’était un Américain qui le détenait avec dix-sept ans et des poussières, mais pour ça, il faut des soigneurs et des installations spéciales qui font du goutte-à-goutte. C’était terrible de penser

amalgam

We have come to know Man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

Chatterton torpedoed out of the diesel motor room and up toward the top of the wreck. Kohler, stunned by the sight of his friend without a regulator, gave chase behind him. Chatterton’s lungs screamed as his stage bottles came into sight. He kicked harder. Every cell in his body shrieked for oxygen and pulled at his jaws to breathe. He clenched his