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1Lukas1990
This story has been mentioned in this forum before but I would like to share George Macy's letter. Probably no additional comments needed. Amazing story!
2Django6924
>1 Lukas1990:
As you say an amazing story--I believe a similar situation held up the LEC of Oedipus Rex, and may have been responsible for the HP of Erasmus (although in both cases the books had been planned, and work done, but the volumes had not been printed).
If indeed, these books had been printed, it was not only a case of simple honesty and loyalty, but also of optimism (and perhaps stubbornness). Anyone who had seen the famous picture of the older Parisian weeping as the Nazis occupy the city, and of Nazi soldiers enjoying French bistros (and the French women who engaged in "horizontal collaboration"), must wonder at the resilience of those French citizens who believed that one day the invaders would be expelled. There have been some excellent French movies about collaboration, and an amazing film by Rene Clement about the sabotage of the railway system by the Resistance, made as it was actually happening. Altogether a strange time in the life of a country, summed up best by the title of Marcel Ophuls' documentary, "The Sorrow and the Pity."
As you say an amazing story--I believe a similar situation held up the LEC of Oedipus Rex, and may have been responsible for the HP of Erasmus (although in both cases the books had been planned, and work done, but the volumes had not been printed).
If indeed, these books had been printed, it was not only a case of simple honesty and loyalty, but also of optimism (and perhaps stubbornness). Anyone who had seen the famous picture of the older Parisian weeping as the Nazis occupy the city, and of Nazi soldiers enjoying French bistros (and the French women who engaged in "horizontal collaboration"), must wonder at the resilience of those French citizens who believed that one day the invaders would be expelled. There have been some excellent French movies about collaboration, and an amazing film by Rene Clement about the sabotage of the railway system by the Resistance, made as it was actually happening. Altogether a strange time in the life of a country, summed up best by the title of Marcel Ophuls' documentary, "The Sorrow and the Pity."
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