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Swans Chapter 5
The Man Who Feeds the Swans Chapter 5Markenburg: October 1929.For where God built a church, there the Devil would also build a chapel.Martin LutherAs yet another golden summer melted into a sepia...
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Swans Chapter 6
For new readers: THE MAN WHO FEEDS THE SWANS is a novel placed on line one chapter every 2 days. To start at the beginning, you need to go back in the posts to Part 1 dated July 3. I had thought of...
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Chapter 7Markenburg: November 1929He alone, who owns the youth, gains the future. Adolf HitlerAlbert went back to Munich. It had been nice in some ways having him around, but the way his personality...
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When, Why, WHo?
WHEN, WHY, WHO.Whatever happened to reality?Who opened this creaking door,Who pushed us into a chamber of insanity?What happened to the truth?Who decided that lies trump veracity,Why has black become...
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AS FOREIGN AS THEY COME
AS FOREIGN AS THEY COMEWho thought it a necessityTo make this buffoon Foreign Secretary?This facile, floundering FauntleroyBoorish privileged Bullingdon Boy,Playing with a nation’s futureA rich...
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Chapter 8 Markenburg: November 1929There is no past that we can bring back by longing for it. There is only an eternally new now that builds and creates itself out of the best as the past...
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Swans Chapter 9
Chapter 9Berlin: 1933It does not prove a thing to be right because the majority say it is so.Friedrich SchillerIn Markenburg, Gunther had suffered the pangs of love for Ruth, yet had only met her on a...
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Swans Chapter 10
Chapter 10: Markenburg, March 1933.‘We shall have to pass through many a valley, many a narrow defile.Many will grow tired on the way.Of course they will mostly be those who have no reason to do so.’...
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Swans Chapter 11
Chapter 11:Paris: July 1933It is true that liberty is precious –so precious that it must be rationed.V. I. Lenin (1870-1924)Where else could one enjoy café life better than Paris? Sitting outside a...
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Swans Chapter 12
Note to new readers: to read this novel from the beginning, scroll back to Part 1.Chapter 12NuremburgSeptember 3rd 1933‘Patriotism is as fierce as a fever,pitiless as the grave, blind as a stone,and...
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Chapter 13:Markenburg: Christmas 1933Conscience is the inner voice that warns usthat someone may be looking.H. L. Mencken (1880-1956)Albert had hoped for a satisfying conclusion to the exhilaration of...
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FAKE NEWS: THE PSYCHOLOGY
Why don't liberals watch Fox News?Toby Dillon, Short fiction, my specialty. Quora, my current publisher.Updated Jul 18You know those phishing scams, where you get an email that claims to be from Bank...
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Chapter 15:Berlin – MunichJune 1934: KolibriThe best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassinationVoltaire (1694-1778)Adolf Hitler sometimes felt particularly benevolent on...
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Chapter 17Berlin:February 11th 1935‘Death is merely moving from one home to another. The wise man will spend his main efforts in trying to make his future home the more beautiful one.’Rabbi Menachem...
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Chapter 19MarkenburgSeptember 1936“The drive to propagate our race has also propagated a lot of other things” Georg Christoph Lichtenberg (1742 - 1799)It had been a good summer, and the wine festival...
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