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Do celu tam się wysiada. Lec Stanisław Jerzy (pierw. de Tusch-Letz, 1909-1966)
A bogowie grają w kości i nie pytają wcale czy chcesz przyłączyć się do gry (. . . ) Bogowie kpią sobie z twojego poukładanego życia (. . . ) nie przejmują się zbytnio ani naszymi planami na przyszłość ani oczekiwaniami. Gdzieś we wszechświecie rzucają kości i przypadkiem wypada twoja kolej. I odtąd zwyciężyć lub przegrać - to tylko kwestia szczęścia. Borys Pasternak
Idąc po kurzych jajach nie podskakuj. Przysłowie szkockie
I Herkules nie poradzi przeciwko wielu.
Dialog półinteligentów równa się monologowi ćwierćinteligenta. Stanisław Jerzy Lec (pierw. de Tusch - Letz, 1909-1966)

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.Too reticent tohe does not support the Christian Front, but sheapplaud, the mob attacks Newman as a Jew andis uninterested.Content in her racism, she is onlythrows him out.The police outside advise him toout to save herself.As they argue, they sense thatgo home.He senses that he is being followed, but itthey are being followed.An older man and fiveis only Finkelstein, concerned for him, having seenyouths attack as they reach their street, with somewhat happened.As they walk together, Finkelsteinsplitting off to go to Finkelstein’s store.Newmantries to understand Newman, whom he suspectspoints to send the rest that way but is ignored.Hemay be with the Christian Front.Asking Newmansees Finkelstein face his attackers with two baseballdirectly, “Why do you want I shall get out of thebats, as Gertrude runs off.neighborhood,” Finkelstein forces Newman to faceNewman joins Finkelstein, who hands over onethe obvious untruthfulness of the Jewish stereotypebat, and although the two sustain some injuries,by making Newman see him as an individual ratherthey drive the youths away.Newman finally rec-than as a race.ognizes Finkelstein’s humanity, helps him into hisGertrude is angry with Newman for beingstore, and then is invited into his home.It strikesbeaten.Frustrated, he goes to talk to Fred, tellinghim how normal it is.Finkelstein has sent his familyhim to get his group to leave them alone.He asksto relatives for safety.Newman feels a sudden calm,if Fred thinks he is Jewish, and Fred admits that heas if the tension he has been under has passed.has suspected Newman, especially since he mar-No longer torn or confused, he embraces his ownried a Jewish girl.Even as he denies that they arehumanity, just as he embraced that of Finkelstein.023-354_Miller-p2.indd 1725/3/07 12:52:32 PMFocus 173On leaving Finkelstein, Newman realizes thatused by the baron to reclaim his money from a peas-no police have been called and that Gertrude hasantry he dare not push too far; the Jewish man makesdone nothing to help.Learning that she insteadan easy scapegoat.Playing by the rules of the enemywent to see Fred against his express wishes, he ismakes a person complicit in his or her own victim-distraught at her abandonment.As Fred comes outization, and Finkelstein refuses to be intimidated anywith her to talk, he dismisses them both and walkslonger.“I don’t know how to fight them but I willaway, a changed man.He feels disgust in the wayfight them.” The United States of the 1940s wasthat he had hoped to send the attackers towarduneasy, its people waiting for the end of a war intoFinkelstein and is now ready to stand up for him-which they had not expected to be drawn and fear-self.He, too, now refuses to be a victim.He goesing another depression once the troops came home.to the police station and reports the attack, andThey are ready to hit out at any scapegoat who iswhen the desk sergeant assumes that he is Jewish,offered, especially when such offerings are given ahe accepts the label.sense of credibility by the priesthood.Newman isone of them, until Finkelstein forces him to recog-CRITICAL COMMENTARYnize him as a person and question his racist beliefs.Miller’s story of anti-Semitism on the home frontIt is Newman’s moral inertia that most troublesmust have been intentionally combative.It high-him, indicated by his recurring worry about thelights a trenchant fascism at home, even brandishingHispanic woman whom he ignored.Newman oncea swastika, while U.S.troops were still fighting thekilled a man in the war, and even the hurt he didfight against fascism abroad.Given that Miller hasto this faceless enemy has continued to trouble himalways been a pacifist, this questioning of the motivesfor years; once Finkelstein becomes fully human tobehind WORLD WAR II is unsurprising.He calls tohim, it would be impossible for Newman ever toquestion the spurious moral superiority of a culturehurt him.However, it takes a long time for this tothat sees itself as above the enemy by revealing itsoccur as Newman’s prejudices have run deep andown prejudice, moral inertia, and petty violence.unchallenged for many years; they become a hardNewman’s recurring dream of the carousel andhabit to break.Although the story is told mostlyits underground machinery becomes a metaphorfrom Newman’s point of view as he agonizes overfor the underground way in which prejudice seemswhat to believe, Miller switches perspective occa-to be manufactured in America—with negative ste-sionally to Finkelstein to adjust and tighten ourreotyping and outright lies.A “murderous monster”focus on characters and events.is being created that Finkelstein, quite rightly, real-The concept of focusing underscores Miller’sizes will ultimately destroy the whole country if itstory on many levels as he focuses the reader’sis not stopped.“How many times must it happen,”attention on a dark and controversial aspect ofhe asks Newman, “How many wars we got to fightU.S.culture.Newman’s vision changes focus oncein this world before you will understand what theyhe puts on his new glasses, a catalyst for change inare doing to you?” Finkelstein knows that it is nothis life.It also alters at other points in the novelthe Freds and Gertrudes and their like that need toonce they are set in motion by this initial catalyst.change but the morally deficient bystanders whoGertrude constantly changes in his and our visionare in the majority and are being sullied by their(which is largely dependent on his)—at first, heacceptance of a bigotry that they know is morallythinks she is Jewish, then an attractive Gentile, andwrong.Once they speak out against such racism,finally an unpleasant and narrow-minded bigot [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]

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