![]() It was not the thought of being unloved that froze me I had taught myself to do without love. It wasn't the fear of death I had taught myself to think of death as a friend. It was not guilt that froze me I had taught myself never to feel guilt. I took several steps down the sidewalk when something happened. He must suffer for all that he has deposited on to the streets of New York, restored to the mainstream of life. Everybody else, no matter what he did, is sure a good man could not have acted in any other way. Mengel says to me this morning, has a bad conscience about what he did in the war. ![]() He is has a different guard for different parts of the day and night. Howard writes his story from a jail cell in old Jerusalem in 1961 while awaiting a fair trial for his war crimes by the republic of Israel. I think he knows that there is no way out, so he remains as this man he has pretended to be for so many years. Trapped inside of the mess he got himself into. Though he does seem to have a conscience, somehow, somewhere, deep down inside he is trapped. If he were to show emotion, he would go crazy. No, he doesn't seem to show much emotion but does that in a way seem understandable when you think about all he did and seen. But is Howard really such a bad man?Īll throughout reading the book, I would ask myself that question. It's never been more true: Left or right, Christian or Muslim, those convinced they're doing violence in service of a higher power and against an irretrievably inhuman enemy are the most dangerous creatures of all. There are plenty of good reasons for fighting, but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. ![]() " Vonnegut introduces this as the moral of his book". We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be. But in serving multiple masters, Campbell ends up ruining his life and becoming an unwitting inspiration to bigots. generals and preserve his marriage to a German woman, their "nation of two," as he calls it. refashions himself as a Nazi propagandist in order to pass coded messages on to the U. In Mother Night, apolitical expatriate American playwright Howard W. You could almost tell this book, story by discussing some of the quotes. ![]() He says things in a way that really makes you step back and think. What intrigued me the most when reading Mother Night, by Kurt Vonnegut, were the quotes. ![]()
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