Woman in the Sudetenland weeping upon the annexation of the territory to Nazi Germany.1938
By Spike Barrington
Bauman’s hatred and distortion of modernity cannot change the fact: the Holocaust was not the product of modernity but its betrayal.
It’s dinner time.
A tribesman in a purple suit enters the kitchen.
The oven hums.
The dagger in his tie is adjusted.
The napkin is folded.
The wine glass is aligned.
Beef, medium rare.
Château Margaux, 2015.
Asparagus. Potatoes. Carrots.
All is order.
All is civility.