“It was a spring afternoon in that year of grace
19-, when Europe sat upon the anxious seat beneath a menace that hung over its
head for months.” — German novelist and Nobel Literature laureate Thomas Mann
(1875-1955), Death in Venice (1911)
It might be more appropriate for today’s “menace”—nationalism/fascism
revived—to appear while we wait for the cold of winter to arrive…
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