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nor do I know why Glenn is being accused of defending him - for all I know, that accusation is itself completely spurious.
I think that Bob Dylan was being sardonic when he wrote "and others say, don't hate nothing at all except hatred," though, don't you agree? One so easily allows oneself to hate the haters, it becomes a mutually reinforcing cycle.
So I shall persevere with Hannah Arendt, who is only just beginning to get into her stride at the point I quoted her. A few pages later she manages to bring out the good side of Benjamin Disraeli, who it never before occurred to me even HAD a good side:
"Here was one who started out to sell his soul to the devil, but the devil did not want the soul and the gods gave him all the happiness of this earth."
I shall let you know if she ever begins to sound mawkish, because that is clearly the danger with this kind of writing.
