Cost sack? They'd say.

And I'd reply "About tree fiddy"

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883211&forum_id=2/#50003953)

“I continue to study people on the street, which again reinforces my impression of the Orient [Rostov] as a place of disenchantment. The eye has to grow accustomed to the most unpleasant sights imaginable - there is no oasis, no respite. Technology is the only thing that functions in good order: the railroads, the cars, the airplanes, loudspeakers, and naturally everything belonging to the world of weaponry. Otherwise, there is a complete absence of everything organic, of nourishment, clothing, warmth, light. This is even more pronounced for the higher aspects of life - for joy, happiness, and cheer, and for any benevolent power of art. And all this on some of the richest soil on the globe.

The story of the Tower of Babel always seems to repeat itself. In this place, however, we do not find it under construction, but rather in the stage after its collapse and the confusion of languages. These rational constructs always contain the seeds of their own destruction. They have an icy chill that attracts fire the way iron attracts lightning.” (November 23 1942)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883211&forum_id=2/#50003958)

The shifts in German politics that led to Weimar collapsing/Catholic Zentrum's coalition decaying/the desperation for a sort of salvation from the same paradigm and toolset that brought about the first Weltkrieg/whatever else are very poorly understood and taboo to explore for the German people themselves, the body politic of record on the matter

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5883211&forum_id=2/#50003991)