Arnold Weinstein - a Scream Goes Through the House
“Our sanity seems to require that events and acts make sense. Whether it be the news reports on world affairs, the behavior of friends, lovers, and col- leagues, or the sensations of our own body and inclinations of our own heart, we want and need to see clearly. Often enough, calling something a mystery simply means that we are, at the moment, ignorant of its cause; we don't have the necessary information. Others are assumed to have this information: experts, police, doctors, politicians, and t...he like. But are things so coherent? Here, too, Proust has much to tell us: I had seen everybody believe, during the Dreyfus affair or during the war, and in medicine too, that truth is a particular piece of knowledge which cabinet ministers and doctors possess, a Yes or No which requires no interpretation, thanks to the possession of which men in power knew whether Dreyfus was guilty or not and knew . . . whether Sarrail in Salonika had or had not the resources to launch an offensive at the same time as the Russians, in the same way that an X ray photograph is supposed to indicate without any need for interpretation the exact nature of a patient's disease.MoreLess
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