galina: ‘Exams were resumed, trains ran, gasoline flowed anew. People could again go on holida
galina: ‘Exams were resumed, trains ran, gasoline flowed anew. People could again go on holiday. It seemed that more had happened in two months than in the ten previous years, but not for us. We hadn’t had time to do anything. At some point we had missed something, but we didn’t know exactly when – or perhaps we’d just let it happen. ‘Everyone had started to believe in a violent future. […] When we met someone new, we wondered which side they’d been on. Now, everything once considered normal had become the object of scrutiny. We evaluated systems and looked for models in an all-encompassing political reading of the world.’ [x] -- source link