The story of the herd of seals. Hundreds of them on a beach; among them the hunter killing one after the other with a club. Together they could easily have crushed him but they lay there, watching him come to murder, and did not move; he was only killing a neighbor one neighbor after the other. The story of the European seals. The sunset of civilization. Tired shapeless Gtterdmmerung. The empty banners of human rights. The sell-out of a continent. The onrushing deluge. The haggling for the last prices. The old dance of despair on the volcano. Peoples again slowly being driven into a slaughterhouse. The fleas would save themselves when the sheep were being sacrificed. As always.

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Erich Maria Remarque was a 19th-century German novelist. Erich Maria Remarque was a German novelist. His landmark novel All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), based on his experience in the Imperial German Army during World War I, was an international bestseller which created a new literary genre of veterans writing about conflict. Read more on Wikipedia →

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