Arnon Grünberg spoke eloquently tonight ... a day of remembrance the victims at the hand of fascism by German Nazis in WWII ...

Refering to right-wing parties openly spreading Xenophobia in The Netherlands ... PM Mark Rutte refusing to act in name of all citizens ...

Grünberg speaking on May 4th: "When they speak about Moroccans, they speak about me."

Een zin als een mokerslag: "Als ze het over Marokkanen hebben, dan hebben ze het over mij." De link, vervolgens, met Primo Levi extra pregnant. Wat een lezing, wat een mens: @arnonyy pic.twitter.com/9mcunoPdlg

— Oscar van Gelderen (@OscarvanG) May 4, 2020

Jacqueline Rose in LRB on counting, innocent murders, Camus, and the state

"Counting is at once a scientific endeavour and a form of magical thinking. It can be a way of bracing ourselves for and confronting an onslaught, and at the same time a doomed attempt at omnipotence, a system for classifying the horror and bundling it away. What exactly are we being told each time the latest figures are announced, rising consistently, dropping slightly, increasing again? Other than that we cannot get a grip on what is happening. We take all the measures there are to be taken, adequate and inadequate according to where and who we are. And we wait.

In Camus's novel, it is only when men start dying, as opposed to hundreds of rats, that the public begins to understand. And even then, only slowly.

Primo Levi - Biography

Amnesia and Gaza Genocide