Conventional Text

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“If the Nazis have really been guilty of the unspeakable crimes circumstantially imputed to them, then—let us make no mistake—pacifism is faced with a situation with which it cannot cope. The conventional pacifist conception of a reasonable or generous peace is irrelevant to this reality.”
—John Middleton Murry (1889–1957)

“I am so glad you have been able to preserve the text in all of its impurity.”
—Samuel Beckett (1906–1989)