If you encounter a human shadow burned permanently into the concrete in Hiroshima, you realize that this is the trace of a very ordinary person now elevated into the emblematic. Time, shame, complicity, or discomfort are the only things that make us pretend History is impersonal or far removed from the power and consequences of our every lived moment.
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Adelbert von Chamisso
Conrad Hall
Thomas Merton
Tanith Lee
Iyanla Vanzant
Veronica Roth
Ralph Goodale