tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972393286348319476.post6995325641339087435..comments2023-12-21T14:37:58.412+04:00Comments on All too Human : I have eyes like you...I have lungs like you...I have a heart like you...I feel pain and fear like you.....but I cant talk like youAny Human Hearthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10281888738281031041noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972393286348319476.post-61734570721574245952018-11-23T02:03:20.619+04:002018-11-23T02:03:20.619+04:00Charles Patterson, a lovely human being whom I had...Charles Patterson, a lovely human being whom I had the privilege of meeting a number of years ago, was a neighbor of the late Nobel Laureate and Yiddish writer, Isaac Bashevis Singer, and the title of Patterson's book, "Eternal Treblinka" is actually in tribute to Singer, from a paragraph in one of Singer's stories, "The Letter Writer":<br /><br />"In his thoughts, Herman spoke a eulogy for the mouse<br />who had shared a portion of her life with him and who,<br />because of him, had left this earth. "What do they<br />know--all these scholars, all these philosophers, all<br />the leaders of the world--about such as you? They have<br />convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor<br />of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other<br />creatures were created merely to provide him with food,<br />pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to<br />them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an<br />eternal Treblinka."ABS314https://www.blogger.com/profile/00554036064019636571noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-972393286348319476.post-30499056363903178432018-11-23T02:01:01.085+04:002018-11-23T02:01:01.085+04:00Charles Patters, a lovely human being whom I had t...Charles Patters, a lovely human being whom I had the privilege of meeting a number of years ago, was a neighbor of the late Nobel Laureate and Yiddish writer, Isaac Beshevis Singer, and the title of Patterson's book, "Eternal Treblinka" is actually in tribute to Singer, from a paragraph in one of Singer's stories:<br /><br />"In his thoughts, Herman spoke a eulogy for the mouse<br />who had shared a portion of her life with him and who,<br />because of him, had left this earth. "What do they<br />know--all these scholars, all these philosophers, all<br />the leaders of the world--about such as you? They have<br />convinced themselves that man, the worst transgressor<br />of all the species, is the crown of creation. All other<br />creatures were created merely to provide him with food,<br />pelts, to be tormented, exterminated. In relation to<br />them, all people are Nazis; for the animals it is an<br />eternal Treblinka."<br /><br /> --Isaac Bashevis Singer, "The Letter Writer"ABS314https://www.blogger.com/profile/00554036064019636571noreply@blogger.com