Freud said (or quoted?), "Tout comprendre c'est tout pardonner."
Not even old Siggy believed that, however.  And anyway, it'll
never be possible to "tout comprendre," so don't worry about
all those erudite village explainers.
 
==Dan Pearlman
 
At 11:23 AM 10/20/98 -0700, you wrote:
>john,
>
>there's an interesting book called _Explaining Hitler_ by Rosenbaum.
>Hitler's baby picture is on the cover.  This is a whole subject apart from
>Pound, but the various theories on how Hitler became _Hitler_ are broad
>and extensive.  my point, however, was that the only way to explain
>without excusing is to include everyone as possible evil-doers, and no one
>wants to think about themselves that way.  so we dance around pointing
>fingers instead.
>
>tina
>
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