I'll risk a brief remark on one of the mails I can understand (I might like
to comment on remarks about Rilke, but my Italian isn't up to scratch ~
that's the way things are on poesiaetc nowadays): don't you think your
remarks about how it is when the "Deutsche" "go wonky" coupled with an
admonition not to forget the 20th C are maybe a mite essentialistic, David?
To borrow your metaphor of the "virus", maybe they of all people have been
inoculated against the disease. Which doesn't mean there are no signs of
racism etc here, but the majority of the population is very far from Blut
und Boden or Führer ideology.
Best
Martin
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