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in pencil in top margin [Oct 29, 1977]

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7. was to enable us to cross over." And he went on to identify every detail, and to confirm how precisely the artist had captured and rendered it all.

    And then began my exhileration.  In the midst of all the carnage, human beings had created!  Knowing they would not come out alive, they created!  Not knowing if their creations would survive, they created!  Nothing, nothing, nothing literally nothing, could squelch the creative urge, so powerful it is.  A sensitive Nazi, an understanding Nazi -- if those are not contradictory, impossible words -- to see even one of these paintings in the camps he would have realized he couldn't win.  No matter what the power, his side could not win.