“The profound rupture we feel today between the past and present is a rupture in the moral history of the world since the ground zero of 1945 – the history in which the Shoah has been for many years the central event and universal reference.”
A conversion I just had with my former-chemistry-major girlfriend, when I learned that she’d also read that article:
Me: Y’know that Primo Levi memoir, The Periodic Table? I just put a hold on it at the library.
Her: I’ve got a copy around here somewhere.
