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Hitler, in turn, was enraged by the world reaction and convinced himself that it merely proved the power and scope of "the Jewish world conspiracy." In

albeit, like so many of the early Nazis, a homosexual

The Germans, if one may risk a generalization, have a weakness for blaming foreigners for their failures.

All that serves to precipitate the catastrophe… is good, very good for us and our German revolution.

situations, there almost certainly would never have been a Third Reich.

And then: "My own fate became known to me. I decided to go into politics."6 As it turned out, this was a fateful decision for Hitler and for the world.

argued that this was indeed Hitler's position. Strasser

a nation comes into existence with its mythology… The unity of its thinking, which means a collective philosophy, [is] presented in its mythology; therefore its mythology contains the fate of the nation.

Is it more childish and foolish to insist that there is a conspiracy or that there is not?

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice...

Cooking and eating were growing to irritate her with their relentless necessity.

Do please," said Captain Naphi, "expedite this journey relevance-ward.

This is a Possible Letter. Until the last second, when I write your name beside that word "Dear," all those sheets and months ago, this is a Possible Letter, pregnant with potentiality. I am very powerful right now. I am all ready to mine the possibilities, make one of them fact.

But this was not quite the right kraken apocalypse.

I don't generally publicly respond to reviews, no matter how wrong-headed or perspicacious I think them. Nine times out of ten, writers' responses to critics seem to me at best undignified.

I do not believe the presence of moisture in the air is sufficient reason to overturn society's usual sensible taboo against wielding spiked clubs at eye level.

It ain't that he's not interested in, like, persuasiveness, get me? He's interested in it. Like something in a jar.

Chaverim," he said to them. A category stolen from an old language. "Chaver," they said back—comrade, equal, conspirator.

Where was that crisis energy in the real becoming what it was not, if what it was not was right there alongside what it was?

Come on," said Billy. "This is batshit." He pleaded. "A religion about squid?

As in Kiev, so across the cities of Russia, among the dreaming rich.

A rage. Ori supposed there were as many unspeakable stories as there were men come back from war. Baron was

and then the other op-er-at-or told the formal in-stee-gay-tor that his suit could not be heard the very thought was quite absurd . . .

His Infernal Excellency," he declared, "the ambassador of Hell.