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Charles! You make me want to read more. You make me want to learn to structure my writing and storytelling in the intriguing way you do, peripatetic and almost feeling wonderfully aimless until you deposit us gently back where we began but oh so much more broadened. Also I have a feeling I’d glean much more from novels if you wrote an annotated historical and cultural companion for all the novels on my list.

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May 21, 2023Liked by Charles Schifano

This was wonderful. I love that a group of artists decided to show films in the old Geatapo building. Light to drown out the shadows of the past. And Muller’s writing is splendid, although you’re no slouch yourself!

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Great writing -- thanks! I knew nothing about Romania until now. The "authoritarian instinct" -- why is that so seductive to people through history and currently? What is it about the "strong man" that people want? Until they don't.

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"What we read, instead, is a more complicated and diabolical narrative about the arbitrary and nonsensical and indiscriminate application of power." Arbitrary is the correct word, isn't it? One of the most terrifying words.

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