A Writer's Notebook, Day One-Thousand-Seven-Hundred-And-Fifty-Six
I am doing a lot of research into anti-Semitism lately, and it can be quite distressing. Some of it is very strange, and I keep discovering that many ideas one would think died out centuries ago still have some purchase, though it could be that many times it is no longer a literal belief but a metaphor, perhaps, not that this helps to make it much better. It is fascinating, in some sense, but I have to be careful and not go too deep all at once, or it just gets to be too much. It is important to me, though, and I think valuable work, as well. I do wish I felt that I had a clearer sense of the scope of what I am doing, especially now that I have been working on it for so long, but there always seems to be more that would be valuable to explore.
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