While doing some war reading, I came across this stunning little note:
"In December, 1941, in siege-bound Leningrad, Druskin, ill and starving, along with Kharms’s second wife Maria Malich, trudged across the city to Kharms’s bombed-out apartment building to take charge of a trunk full of manuscripts."
Druskin & Malich's actions saved the #poetry of two others from utter eradication...
But what a staggeringly human act: to strive to save the best of what we create, even amid the worst of it.
@MLClark I draw a straight line from that story to Viktor Frankl observing those in Nazi concentration camps with him who had some vision of a purpose in the future survived. Druskin & Malich may very well have saved themselves by saving other’s art.
Well said, Canis.
Also:
I'm still looking forward to listening to a few gems from Mindwebs. Haven't had time yet, but I've passed on the link to a few others, and queued some stories I know I want to hear later this week. Thank you so much for passing along the link!
@MLClark Throughout history, anonymous heroes have saved their culture from destruction. Not everyone, alas, is as enlightened.