When the French government began ordering refugees to report to camps, there was little to provide comfort except for poetry. –Elizabeth Young-Bruehl, Hannah Arendt: For Love of the World ….terrible is the temptation to be good. –Bertold Brecht It is a sad thing not to have friends, but it is even sadder not to have More The post The Politics of Spirit or, Thinking ‘In a Marrow Bone’ appeared first on CounterPunch.org.