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"When they were our age, said Stavra, "they fought the fascists
and worked underground and got beaten to death in Gestapo dungeons.
For our sake, 1 know; and we're grateful. We truly are, but what else
are we supposed to do about it-apologize for being born too late? They
think we have it soft, and we think we've about had our fill of how
tough they had it when they were our age. So we
try
to change the
subject, and sometimes we find that there isn't any other.
"Where it [the dialogue] breaks down, is on the subject of politics."
" 'Politics is pornography,'" said one of the girls, quoting Miodrag
Bulatovic, a writer of her own generation. "War is the supreme obscenity,
and politics its bastard child.
Or
maybe it's the other way around."
"The revolutionaries have settled down to sanity and a good
dinner," said Stavra. "1 don't blame them. That, by the way, is what
they most hold against us-that we even refuse to blame them. That we
just simply don't give a damn."
"Our generation ... ," began the girl, but Stavra cut her short.
"Our generation nothing. No one talks for anybody but himself.
That's the difference between us and them. Anyway, my answer is no."
"Answer to what?"
''To whatever comes up. Something is bound to."
Ernst Pawel
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