these results, or even that as a rule it does produce them. In no way do I want only to associate remembering wrongs with perdition. My point is, however, that the memory of wrongs suffered is from a moral standpoint dangerously undetermined. Elie Wiesel is well aware that the memory of wrongs suffered—even the memory of the Holocaust, marks of which he bears on his own body—can have widely divergent effects, some of them pernicious. At least as well as anyone, he knows the pain of memory and therefore
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