How not to sleep x three
How NOT to sleep
Three nights ago
Forget to charge the talking book
reader. Dead silence when RantWoman went to turn on Trevor Noah’s book of
everyday privilege, race, and violence in S Africa. Skip the overnight radio. Sklp
reading a psalm or two in braille. Try to settle.
The kids in cages in the
#TrumpConcentrationCamps on the southern border are TOO MUCH to think about. So
don’t except of course…
INSTEAD, brain wanders to video
of Lesley Stahl interviewing 99-year-old Ben Ferencz, the last surviving
Nuremburg prosecutor.
The link in case readers also
need help not sleeping:
At the age of 27 Ferencz was part
of the military specialists who swept through captured Nazi bases gathering
intelligence and documents. Ferencz collected all the reports of the
Einsatzgruppen or Action Groups. The Einsatzgruppen swept east at the end of
the war killing a million additional Jews, gypsies and others (people with
disabilities—holy crap: RantWoman had not thought about that deeply before—on
top of the millions slaughtered in the concentration camps.
Being good Germans and seeking to
capture their leader’s attention: the Einsatzgruppen documented their ravages
in precise detail in notebooks. Ferencz pleaded with his command to use the
captured notebooks as the basis for a trial; in the end he prevailed about
having the trial and was asked to serve as prosecutor. He called no witnesses
beyond introducing the notebooks and convicted everyone he tried. Four of them
were later hanged.
The interview included pictures
of the defendants. Even enlarged on RantWoman’s screen, hey looked quite ordinary
despite orchestrating mass murder.
Nuremburg digression from the
world of interpreting: the Nuremburg trials are often cited as some of the
first modern public demonstration of the role of interpreters.
Most digestible quote: It takes
courage not to get discouraged. Sure, but that does not help about sleep.
Sleep data: two hours of leaky
CPAP mask along with the mass murder meditations. Get up. Sleep in chair for
two hours. Feed Cat. Go back to bed for 2+ hours. Okayyyy.
Two nights ago: main issue was eating too much late in the evening. Somehow managed 5+ hours in one spell. Then got up, fed cat, wound up staying up.
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