from In Paradise -- Were you young people never told, he says, that after the war, when those few returning refugees made their way back home to Poland to reclaim their lives, they were reviled and driven off and sometimes bludgeoned and occasionally, when too persistent, killed? Nearly two thousand Jews were murdered in this country after the war, he says. Didnt you know that? Murtered? They both have stopped their fooling. They look shocked -- less by the statistic, he suspects, than by their passengers intensity. No, sir! Sorry! We were never learned such things! Why sorry? You werent born yet. His tone is too dismissive: the boys regret had been sincere. At home, at school is what I meant. Mirek is silent. The two heads in the front seat, facing forward, seem hypnotized by the thwack-wack-wack-thwack of ragged windshield wipers dragged across cold muddied glass. Why challenge them that way, idiot? What did you expect? He scowls in the same instant that his scowl is caught by the boys scared eyes in the rearview mirror, reading the strangers expression the wrong way. ---and thus it is I begin another book -- I saw it at the library as I was claiming my Hold of All The Light We Cannot See (so why have I not started it?).... --as if discussion of how fitting in is a theme worthy of consideration-- youtube/watch?v=hLhN__oEHaw
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