I think that the poetry this quote expresses covers the ‘implications’ for basing the Jacques Presser figuration upon this. Even the words resist offering themselves to the writer and historian. In terms of his vision and experience of them. ‘The very words threaten to strike’ is a quote from ‘De Nacht der Girondijnen’ (The Night of the Girondines) (1957) by historian, writer and poet Jacob (Jacques) Presser (1899 -1970).Īmong other things, Jacques Presser wrote the magnum opus ‘Ondergang, De vervolging en verdelging van het Nederlandse Jodendom 1940-1945’ (‘Doom, the persecution and annihilation of Dutch Jewry’) about the history of Jewish persecution in the Netherlands in the Second World War.įor the Jacques Presser pedestal I chose the phrase ‘the very words threaten to strike’ because the sentence may be viewed as characterising the impossibility of recording the horrors of war in writing.
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