"We too are so dazzled by power and prestige as to forget our essential fragility.... Forgetting that we are all in the ghetto, that the ghetto is walled in, that outside the ghetto reign the lords of death, and that close by the train is waiting."

--Primo Levy, "The Drowned and The Saved"

Wow. Primo Levi is really amazing -- I read two of his books in college but didn't know he was still alive, or still an active writer. This article is definitely making me want to read more...