
“For both . . . are
victims, big and bitter victims, whatever the order of magnitude, whatever the
chronology of victimization. The have,
both these nations, suffered too much and so long that they bear their scars
grandiosely, as essential features of an identity, as relics of a sacred
history, as tests to the extent to which others represent them as they wish to
be represented. And so both of them,
almost as a matter of emotional and cultural course, could let the scars do the
work of the wounds; and the memory of oppression do the work of oppression”
(Wieseltier, 29)
Alanna Millman
Gte911p@mail.gatech.edu
Last revised: December 1, 2003