Diary of a Dissenter: The Week from My Window

‘The present looks proudly down on the past, which if it had come later would look proudly down on the present.’ – Robert Musil, 'The Man Without Qualities.'

The Road Going Forward

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SATURDAY

The world divides in two, as though in sympathy with the ends of the axis that underlies our…