#443 Acolyte (Second Legend)- Rebecca Makkai
How much can you hide? Using grease paint and old clothes to
make the young look old, to avoid the advances of the foreign soldiers; wearing
a star of David to get into he ghetto, then using the papers to get out.
Changing names and identities for mere survival. If you do it long enough, who
are you?
“But to claim one ancestor would be to claim them all, even
those on the wrong sides of humanity’s decisive moral battles. The slave
owners, the anti-Semites, the Huns, the cowards.”
They sneak an anti communist novel out of Hungary. Trying to
write about these things can be tricky. How much truth to put down, when half
of what you are writing was about hiding the truth?
“There are stranger things true. There are simpler things
not.”
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