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Grandfather interrogates me about you every day. He desires to know if you forgive him for the things he told you about the war, and about Herschel. {You could alter it, Jonathan. For him, not for me. Your novel is now verging on the war. It is possible.} He is not a bad person. He is a good person, alive in
a bad time. Do you remember when he said this? Everything is the way it is because everything was the way it was. Sometimes I feel ensnared in this, as if no matter what I do, what will come has already been fixed. For me, OK, but there are things that I want for little Igor. There is so much violence around him, and I mean more than merely the kind that occurs with fists. I do not want him to feel violence anymore, but also I do not want him to one day make others feel violence.
I parrot: Grandfather is not a bad person, Jonathan. Everyone performs bad actions. I do. Father does. Even you do. A bad person is someone who does not lament his bad actions. Grandfather is now dying because of his. I beseech you to forgive us, and to make us better than we are. Make us good.

( Jonathan Safran Foer )
[ Everything Is Illuminated ]
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