To the rhythm of the gunfire and the voices of concern

[venta]

Today, I was all set to fall down a rabbit hole. I had a nicely nasty narrative planned, of strange scritching sounds and tortures and people imprisoned in attics.

Then the BBC reminded me that today marks 60 years since Auschwitz was liberated. And suddenly tales of torture and imprisonment didn't seem so funny after all.

Today, the people who lived and died in Auschwitz deserve a thought. The other 364 days of the year, we can remember that we're still doing it.

Comments

[redcountess]

Hmmmm, not very well thought out (the date for the rabbit hole thing), was it?

[venta.livejournal.com]

Well, it made sense to do it on Lewis Carroll's birthday, really. And to be honest, I think the anniversary only made the news this year because it was the 60th. I certainly wouldn't have known the date off-hand.

(So when I said "reminded" up there, I actually meant "minded" :)

I wasn't suggesting people shouldn't be doing normal, funny, surreal or frivolous things today. Just that the particular thing I'd been planning seemed inappropriate when I'd just been reading articles about concentration camps.