“ No serious person ever thinks about anything else except Hitler and Stalin.”

     W. G. Sebald*

Though I don't really consider myself all that serious a person, I'm going to spend the rest of my normal "posting time"  pondering why the above statement, though on the face of it absurd, still strikes me as anything but.

* Author of “Vertigo,” “The Emigrants,” “The Rings of Saturn,” and “Austerlitz”

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