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Notes: Closes shop. “The sun sets,” murmured Celeborn. “Andúnë!” exclaimed the girl. “Erestor taught me the word yesterday.” “Yes, my child,” he agreed quietly. Carnilótë smiled and turned away from the glory of dusk, pausing only to cast a last wistful glance at the statue of Míriel Serindë. The Heralds of Dusk Chapter 18 Andúnë “A story, Grandfather!” Aralótë commanded...

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jaylake has asked a question about fantasy and politics (which I answer here with an addendum here ). This is a huge, complicated question, and obviously your answer to it depends on how you define "politics" in the first place. It also ties in with a couple of things that Behemoth is making me think about. (N.b., this is a segue: what follows has no necessary connection to the...

I'm about fifty pages into Franz Neumann's Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944 (1942, 1944), and I just want to note that he's already, more or less in passing, demolished the "we are simple soldiers!" defense. In talking about the Weimar Republic, he says: The Reichswehr, reduced to 100,000 men by the Versailles Treaty, continued to be the stronghold of conservatism...

...strange experience, a little like reading alternate history, because it is a dispatch from the world of the gentleman professional soldier. Each of those three words, "gentleman," "professional," and "soldier," is crucial. Liddell Hart was himself a professional soldier*, and he clearly approached the German generals, not just on that basis, but with that as a kind of secret handshake: a tacit...

...for the Origins of his Evil . 1998. New York: HarperPerennial, 1999. Long, ranting in parts, depressed in others. The Case for Auschwitz is a massive book, 551 pages not counting the index, and larger than an average hardback. I almost didn't buy it when I found it at the used bookstore because it was so intimidating, but I am very glad I did, because I was richly rewarded. This is a book...